Infrastructuring and the challenge of dynamic seams in mobile knowledge work

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

Volumn 27, Issue , 2016, Pages 1323-1336

  Erickson, Ingrid ^a   Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrastructure; Knowledge work; Mobile technology; Sociotechnical; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

ARTICULATION WORKS; CONTEXTUAL CONSTRAINTS; DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION; INFRASTRUCTURE; KNOWLEDGE WORK; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; ORGANIZATIONAL BOUNDARIES; SOCIOTECHNICAL;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84963542223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2818048.2820015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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