This conference is concerned the twin disciplines of Construction and Computing and with articulating the overlap between these disciplines. But within the human dimensions there are some important similarities. Construction and Computing both depend on, and provide opportunities for, the knowledge and skills of individual practitioners and in turn, at a social level, support or reflect different organizational structures. We can observe how concepts, which are initially created as an intuitive response to technical issues within the domain, are refined and formalized through computerization, and are then 'played back' to the practitioners in the form of computer applications. One might argue that the success of those applications depends to a large extent on the ability of the software engineers to create appropriate abstractions of the existing human activities.
Technical history is littered with counter examples.
Of course it is not only the technology, but also its social acceptance which is significant. Your attention might have been drawn recently to a major international construction project, which was being lauded for breaking the 'one million' document barrier. This raises a few questions. We are not criticizing the users. They used the available software, as intended, but there is still a distinct feeling of 'sub-optimality'.