“Collaborative work is the core of our society, wrought with difficulties and benefits. It is clear that technology can change group work, and there is a good possibility that it can result in major enhancements to productivity. But, there is a lot of work to do before we fully understand how to accomplish that. Trial and error from creative system builders is too slow a discovery process. What...

Drawing on a fieldwork study, this paper considers different design options for the development of a system for facilitating distributed organisation and distributed working within a sector of the print industry. The relationship between the design of the system and the design of the organisation is also examined. It is concluded that if organisations are to practically benefit from the continu...

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In this position paper, I argue, from previous experience working on Computer Mediated Communication and from recent experience studying contexts for computer supported cooperative work such as ambulance control and hospitals, that any use of the Clark Model in design needs to be incorporated within a more general analysis of experiencing relational activity.

Practice-based CSCW research is an orientation towards empirically-grounded research embracing particular methodological approaches with the aim of creating new theory about work, collaboration, and cooperative technologies. While practice-based CSCW research has several strong roots in both North America and Europe: ECSCW and Europe remain central to this tradition. In this panel we will discu...

This paper discusses seminal contributions by and current open challenges for CSCW in the study of cultural heritage practices. It provides an overview of key issues relating to social and cooperative interactions particularly around the design and use of technology at heritage sites that have emerged in CSCW, and pertaining the conduct of visitors, the design and evaluation of interactive inst...

Over the last decade, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has emerged as an identifiable research area which focuses on the role of the computer in group work. CSCW is a generic term which combines the understanding of the nature of group working with the enabling technologies of computer networking, systems support and applications. This paper examines the classes of system which have e...

We investigate the relationship between an arbitrary d -dil!1ensional mesh of n processors. and one all of whose dimensions have equal length. We give optimal simulation algorithms between these two models. keywords: Analysis of AIgorithffis. Mesh-Connected Processor Arrays, Parallel Computation This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research under Conlract NOOO14-84.K.0502.

We relate partition functions of spin systems for arbitrary spin s to partition functions of fermion systems. A simple diagram technique with s-dependent Matsubara frequencies is found. We indicate also a similar procedure for su(3)models. Supported by Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Austria *Part of project P8916 PHY of the ‘Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung in Öst...