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CSCW and the Internet of Things

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The Internet of Things (IoT) promises a massive increase in interconnectivity between objects and spaces requiring some sense of cooperation and interaction between them. We suggest the explicit conceptualization of the cooperation between objects and spaces as cooperative work and explore some of the visions, analogies and exemplary illustrations of the IoT using key CSCW concepts: coordination mechanisms, differences across contexts, common information spaces, and awareness. The paper begins a reflection on how CSCW concepts and approaches can inform an understanding of the IoT from a social and practice perspective raising crucial questions for the design of these technologies in the future. An issue of paramount importance will be negotiating the boundaries between (networks of) objects and people, making them transparent, understandable and adaptable.

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  1. Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Toni Robertson

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Ina Wagner

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  1. Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, The University of Copenhagen, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Nina Boulus-Rødje

  2. The University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Telemedicine & eHealth Research Group, Tromsø, Norway

    Gunnar Ellingsen

  3. University of Oslo, Department of Informatics, Oslo, Norway

    Tone Bratteteig

  4. University of Oslo, Department of Informatics, Oslo, Norway

    Margunn Aanestad

  5. Department of Computer Science, The University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Pernille Bjørn

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Robertson, T., Wagner, I. (2015). CSCW and the Internet of Things. In: Boulus-Rødje, N., Ellingsen, G., Bratteteig, T., Aanestad, M., Bjørn, P. (eds) ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19-23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20499-4_15

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