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If the tool you’ve always used is a hammer, you tend to address everything as if it were a nail (Fig. 8.1). This chapter is about alternatives to “hammering style” for information systems professionals. My reading of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is that, despite the fuzzy edges of the field, work is clearly showing us that it’s not a nail we’re addressing when we design systems based on Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). And in that case we may feel that it’s, let’s say, foolish to use a hammer.
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Hales, M. (1994). Where Are Designers? Styles of Design Practice, Objects of Design and Views of Users in CSCW. In: Rosenberg, D., Hutchison, C. (eds) Design Issues in CSCW. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2029-2_8
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