Fitting an activity-centric system into an ecology of workplace tools

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 787-790

  Balakrishnan, Aruna D ^a   Matthews, Tara ^b   Moran, Thomas P ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

activity centric computing; cscw; office; user study; workplace

Indexed keywords

ACC SYSTEMS; COLLABORATION TOOL; DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS; DIGITAL ARTIFACTS; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; USER STUDY; WORK ACTIVITIES;

GROUPWARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 77953986078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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