Assistance: The work practices of human administrative assistants and their implications for it and organizations

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 609-618

  Erickson, Thomas ^a   Danis, Catalina M ^a   Kellogg, Wendy A ^a   Helander, Mary E ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative assistant; Articulation work; Intelligent assistant; Personal assistant; Secretary

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; INTELLIGENT ASSISTANTS; PERSONAL ASSISTANTS; WORK PRACTICES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 70349173391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460563.1460658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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