Steps towards an ecology of infrastructure: Complex problems in design and access for large-scale collaborative systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 253-264

  Star, Susan Leigh ^a,b   Ruhleder, Karen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Institute for Research on Learning   (United States)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborator; Ethnography; Infrastructure; Organizational computing; Participatory design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COLLABORATOR; ETHNOGRAPHY; INFRASTRUCTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL COMPUTING; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84991836653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/192844.193021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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