Taking the Work Out of Workflow: Mechanisms for Document-Centered Collaboration Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3846944, abstract = {Abstract: There are two aspects to technical support for collaborative activity; support for content work and support for coordination. The design of CSCW systems must typically address both of these, combining them in a collaborative application. This approach, however, suffers from a variety of well-known problems, not least the compatibility between collaborative and single-user applications, working styles and practices. In this paper, we describe an alternative approach that makes coordination and collaborative functionality an aspect of the collaborative artifact rather than a collaborative application. We present an infrastructure and a series of application examples to illustrate the idea of documentcentered collaboration, in which coordination and collaboration are separated from and independent of applications.}, author = {Lamarca, Anthony and Edwards, William K. and Dourish, Paul and Lamping, John and Smith, Ian and Thornton, Jim}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conf. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work ECSCW'99}, citeulike-article-id = {3846944}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.46.6203}, keywords = {activities, placeless, thesis}, pages = {1--20}, posted-at = {2009-01-04 13:00:25}, priority = {2}, title = {Taking the Work Out of Workflow: Mechanisms for Document-Centered Collaboration}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.46.6203}, year = {1999} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3846944 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3846944 N2 - Abstract: There are two aspects to technical support for collaborative activity; support for content work and support for coordination. The design of CSCW systems must typically address both of these, combining them in a collaborative application. This approach, however, suffers from a variety of well-known problems, not least the compatibility between collaborative and single-user applications, working styles and practices. In this paper, we describe an alternative approach that makes coordination and collaborative functionality an aspect of the collaborative artifact rather than a collaborative application. We present an infrastructure and a series of application examples to illustrate the idea of documentcentered collaboration, in which coordination and collaboration are separated from and independent of applications. EP - 20 TI - Taking the Work Out of Workflow: Mechanisms for Document-Centered Collaboration T2 - Proceedings of the European Conf. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work ECSCW'99 SP - 1 KW - activities KW - placeless KW - thesis AU - Lamarca, Anthony AU - Edwards, William AU - Dourish, Paul AU - Lamping, John AU - Smith, Ian AU - Thornton, Jim PY - 1999/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.46.6203 ER -