Agenda for Monday, March 29

Design of CSCW interfaces: common mistakes and problem of awareness

In this weeks interactions reading group, we will be discussing common mistakes and problem of awareness in CSCW interfaces. The first paper is one of the oldest (and heavily cited) papers summarizing typical mistakes CSCW designers make. The second one is assessing the problem of integrating awareness into collaborative writing systems by introducing the "Shared Feedback" paradigm. The third is an early (and often used) example of a CSCW system for playing music in the gym.

Notes taken during the discussion are available

Primary paper: Jonathan Grudin, Why CSCW applications fail: problems in the design and evaluation of organizational interfaces, Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work, p.85-93, September 26-28, 1988, Portland, Oregon, United States

Supporting papers:

Paul Dourish , Victoria Bellotti, Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces, Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work, p.107-114, November 01-04, 1992, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joseph F. McCarthy , Theodore D. Anagnost, MusicFX: an arbiter of group preferences for computer supported collaborative workouts, Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, p.363-372, November 14-18, 1998, Seattle, Washington, United States

If you are curious and have no previous knowledge about CSCW then here is a general introduction.

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