Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work ECSCW ’95 : 10–14 September, 1995, Stockholm, Sweden

Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is an interdisciplinary research area devoted to exploring the issues of designing computer-based systems that enhance the abilities to cooperate and integrate activities in an efficient and flexible manner for people in cooperative work situations. This volume is a rigorous selection of papers that represent both practical and theoretical approaches to CSCW from many leading researchers in the field. As an interdisciplinary area of research, CSCW brings together widely disparate research traditions and perspectives from computer, human, organisational and design sciences. The papers selected reflect a variety of approaches and cultures in the field. __Audience:__ Of interest to a wide audience because of the huge practical impact of the issues and the interdisciplinary nature of the problems and solutions proposed. In particular: researchers and professionals in computing, sociology, cognitive science, human factors, and system design. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Work, Locales and Distributed Social Worlds....Pages 1-16 POLITeam Bridging the Gap between Bonn and Berlin for and with the Users....Pages 17-32 Fragmented Exchange: Disarticulation and the Need for Regionalized Communication Spaces....Pages 33-49 Workflow From Within and Without: Technology and Cooperative Work on the Print Industry Shopfloor....Pages 51-66 Cooperation and Power....Pages 67-82 Reconsidering the Virtual Workplace: Flexible Support for Collaborative Activity....Pages 83-99 Contact: Support for Distributed Cooperative Writing....Pages 101-116 CSCW for Strategic Management in Swiss Enterprises: an Empirical Study....Pages 117-132 Medium versus mechanism: Supporting collaboration through customisation....Pages 133-148 The Session Capture and Replay Paradigm for Asynchronous Collaboration....Pages 149-164 Virtual Reality Tele-conferencing: Implementation and Experience....Pages 165-180 Can the GestureCam be a Surrogate?....Pages 181-196 The Use of Hypermedia in Group Problem Solving: An Evaluation of the DOLPHIN Electronic Meeting Room Environment....Pages 197-213 The Parting of the Ways: Divergence, Data Management and Collaborative Work....Pages 215-230 A General Multi-User Undo/Redo Model....Pages 231-246 Supporting Cooperative Awareness with Local Event Mechanisms: The GroupDesk System....Pages 247-262 Why Groupware Succeeds: Discretion or Mandate?....Pages 263-278 MAJIC Videoconferencing System: Experiments, Evaluation and Improvement....Pages 279-292 Multimedia Support of Collaboration in a Teleservice Team....Pages 293-308 What Are Workplace Studies For?....Pages 309-324 Chalk and Cheese: BPR and ethnomethodologically informed ethnography in CSCW....Pages 325-340 Back Matter....Pages 341-353