What is an activity? Appropriating an activity-centric system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5727 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2009, Pages 582-595

  Yarosh, Svetlana ^a   Matthews, Tara ^b   Moran, Thomas P ^b   Smith, Barton ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity Centric Computing; Appropriation; Office Workplace

Indexed keywords

ACC SYSTEMS; ACTIVITY-CENTRIC COMPUTING; APPROPRIATION; COLLABORATIVE WORK; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; OFFICE WORKS; PRODUCTION QUALITY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTERS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70349575550     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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