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The Practice-Oriented Research Program in CSCW

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Coordinative Practices in the Building Process

Part of the book series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work ((CSCW))

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The overall aim of this book, then, is to generate empirically informed accounts of the building process and discuss concepts of cooperative work and coordinative practices in order to frame technology development. As mentioned, the main questions being addressed are these: How do multiple actors from diverse organizations and disciplines achieve concerted action in the building process? Through which practices is such action coordinated and integrated? How can these coordinative practices be conceptualized? How can empirical material and conceptual distinctions derived from an ethnographic study of the building process inform the design of computational technology in support of cooperative work?

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    Proceedings from the ACM1 conferences on CSCW has been bi-anually since 1986 and anually since 2010.

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    Incidentally, this is a position that has been influential and widely cited in area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) (Schmidt 2011).

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    RFID is an acronym for Radio Frequency Identification and denotes any identification system in which electronic devices occur that use radio waves fields to communicate with identification units fastened to objects.

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Christensen, L.R. (2013). The Practice-Oriented Research Program in CSCW. In: Coordinative Practices in the Building Process. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4117-4_2

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