CSCW IN PRACTICE: AN INTRODUCTION AND CASE STUDIES by Dan Diaper (Editor), Colston Sanger (Editor) ( 9783540197843 )

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Title:

CSCW IN PRACTICE: AN INTRODUCTION AND CASE STUDIES

By:

Dan Diaper (Editor), Colston Sanger (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

List price:	£72.00
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ISBN 10:

3540197842

ISBN 13:

9783540197843

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG

Pub. date:

26 February, 1993

Edition:

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993

Series:

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Pages:

196

Description:

This is an introduction to both technical and human aspects of computer supported co-operative work (CSCW), taken from the perspectives of the technology, the users and the user interface. The authors examine the concept of collaborative authoring to propose solutions to the problems encountered.

Synopsis:

Dan, is this book going to provide a substantial, coherent and timely contribution to CSCW or is it just going to be a ragbag of papers from several meetings stuck together? The latter, of course, Colston. However, . . . . . . and the "However" was rather long and technical, but not substantially different in overall content from that of this pref- ace. Most of the papers contained in this book were initially presented at meetings organized by the UK's Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Special Interest Group in 1991, but the book is not a proceedings, whatever the above quo- tation suggests. Readers will immediately notice that, unlike typical proceedings, all the references are placed together at the end of the book and that there is a substantial index: the hall- mark of all proper, technical books of quality. If you choose to delve further than this preface, you will find that each chapter is cross-referenced, thus you also gain a coherent structure across chapters - an advantage traditionally associated with high quali- ty single-author books. Furthermore, turning apparent disadvantage to advantage, while single-author books must inevitably present the idiosyncratic perspective of their author, in this book, and appropriately for a young area such as CSCW, you will be presented with the views of a dozen CSCW experts who all have considerable, hard-won experience, gained over many years.

Illustrations:

7 Illustrations, black and white; XXII, 196 p. 7 illus.

Publication:

Germany

Imprint:

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

Returns:

Returnable

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