Working with Groupware
Subtitle: Understanding and Evaluating Collaboration Technology
By: by J.H. Erik Andriessen
Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 1431-1496; Computer supported cooperative work
Publisher: Springer London; Imprint; Springer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781447100676
Description: This book looks at the social aspects of how virtual and geographically dispersed groups work together using information and communication tools (groupware). It introduces the basic concepts and brings together ideas from various disciplines to provide an integrated approach to the evaluation and design of groupware technology. Key topics include: =B7 Why some collaboration technologies succeed and others fail =B7 The conditions needed for successful distributed collaboration =B7 How to take a systematic, user-oriented, design-related approach to the evaluation of computer supported collaboration Primarily intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Information and Communication Technology, Human-Computer Interaction, Communication Sciences, Human Factors, Interface Design and Multimedia Systems, this book will also be of interest to researchers, practitioners and lecturers in social and organisational sciences.