Human children 18-24 months of age and 3 young chimpanzees interacted in 4 cooperative activities with a human adult partner. The human children successfully participated in cooperative problem-solving activities and social games, whereas the chimpanzees were uninterested in the social games. As an experimental manipulation, in each task the adult partner stopped participating at a specific poi...

Cooperative analysis and design is often considered only to be applicable in settings where a system is being developed solely for the ‘user’ participants in the process. This paper, however, argues that there are quite good prospects in applying cooperative analysis and design techniques in specific use settings to inform development of general products. We describe and discuss the application...

An interactive puzzle-solving program was implemented in two versions both permitting two players to cooperate in solving the puzzle. In one version, the users were permitted not only to individually pick up and place pieces into the puzzle but also to jointly pick up and position pieces with synchronous cooperative control of the piece. In the other version, the synchronous cooperative control...

This paper introduces the speciication language CoCoA. The features of CoCoA are designed for the speciication of both organisational and transactional aspects of cooperative activities, based on the CoAct cooperative transaction model. The novelty of the language lies in its ability to deal with a broad spectrum of cooperative applications, ranging from cooperative document authoring to workko...

The Theory of Distributed Systems research group at MIT, led by Prof. Nancy Lynch, is working with the Cooperative Computing group at NTT on developing models and analysis methods for distributed systems, with a focus on cooperative group activities in networks. Such group activities range from human social activities in cyber communities to powerful distributed applications involving data shar...

The development of large software systems is teamwork that requires tool support for coordinating cooperative activities, maintaining project control and sharing information. Existing collaborative environments that aim to support cooperative software development often try to predefine and automate the development process. This leads to problems since software development is a highly dynamic pr...

Software process is inherently cooperative. During its activities, developers work together in order to develop a quality product. Especially, project managers are involved in decision make activities that can drive the project to success or failure. Those activities are better performed by experienced people, when developers work cooperatively, and when knowledge is shared. In this paper, we p...

Requirements Engineering – one of the macro-activities of Sofware Engineering – is a systematic process of capturing, modelling and documenting requirements through an iteractive and cooperative approach of problem analysis, documentation of the resulting observations in a variety of formats of representations and verification of the accuracy of the acquired understanding [13]. It is an activit...

This study aims at investigating the effects of cooperative language learning on learning active and passive structures among Iranian EFL students. The participants of the study were 60 high school students that were selected from third grade of Barikbin high school in Qazvin. All of the participants were male. Their level of proficiency was intermediate. Then the participants were divided into...