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From its early days, the CSCW research community has been multi—disciplinary, involving not just computer scientists, but social scientists such as sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and cognitive scientists. Our collective understanding of the nature of work and people’s requirements for systems support, and of how to design systems to meet these needs and fit into their broader contexts of use, is drawn from contributions across all these discipline areas.
“CSCW should be conceived as an endeavour to understand the nature and requirements of cooperative work with the objective ofdesigning computer—based technologies for cooperative work arrangements.” (Schmidt and Bannon, 1992) [Emphasis my own]
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Fitzpatrick, G. (2003). The CSCW Design Challenge. In: The Locales Framework. The Springer International series on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0363-5_2
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