Since my temperament draws me to groupware, I have read about and taught it, and tried many groupware programs. This has been interesting, but the only groupware that has…
December 1991 - Vol. 34 No. 12
Features
Computing in a less-developed country
Almost all of the nations of Latin America are so-called less-developed countries (LDCs). But unlike many such countries elsewhere, quite a few have recently attempted to…
Collaboration is a sign of maturation. A child is nurtured at home before venturing into the world. An idea is first developed then introduced to a larger community. We…
Toward an open shared workspace: computer and video fusion approach of TeamWorkStation
Groupware is intended to create a shared workspace that supports dynamic collaboration in a work group over space and time constraints. To gain the collective benefits of…
Putting innovation to work: adoption strategies for multimedia communication systems
Multimedia communication systems promise better support for widely distributed workgroups. Their benefits for complex communication—problem-solving, negotiating,…
Designing for cooperation: cooperating in design
This article will discuss how to design computer applications that enhance the quality of work and products, and will relate the discussion to current themes in the field…
Electronic social fields in bureaucracies
Advanced computer tools designed to facilitate collaboration in a common task or across functions have had a remarkably disappointing record of diffusion and adoption…
Update on National Science Foundation funding of the “Collaboratory”
NSF-funded collaboratories are experimental and empirical research environments in which domain scientist work with computer, communications, behavioral and social…
Collaborative computing: collaboration first, computing second
These articles on Collaborative Computing will seem out of place to a number of readers from the computer science community. Interesting articles perhaps, but what do…
The column, “Benchmarks for LAN Performance Evaluation,” by Larry Press (Aug. 1988, pp. 1014-1017) presented a technique for quickly benchmarking the…
This issue of Communications focuses on social and organizational influences governing collaborative uses of computers and communications. Here we review some of those…