Ambiguities, awareness and economy: A study of emergency service work

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 286-295

  Pettersson, Mårten ^a   Randall, Dave ^a,b   Helgeson, Bo ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Awareness; Centers of coordination; Command and Control; Computer Aided Dispatch; Control rooms; Coordination; Ethnography; Time critical work; Workplace study

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038336768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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