Working with "constant interruption": CSCW and the small office

Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 1994

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 275-286

  Rouncejield, Mark ^a   Hughes, John A ^a   Rodden, Tom ^a   Viller, Stephen ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative systems; Information sharing; Observational studies of work; Systems development

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEMS; COOPERATIVE WORKS; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; INFORMATION SHARING; INTRODUCTION AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SMALL-SCALE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84905414912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/192844.193028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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