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Evaluation of Cooperative Work
Authors: Koutsabasis, Panayiotis
Reviewer: Lepouras, Georgios
Subject: ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY > TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
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Abstract:
After completing this chapter, the reader will be able to: - Explain why the field of technology-supported cooperative work is multidisciplinary. - Identify important categories of cooperation / collaboration technologies, based on the time/place matrix. - To explain why even the richest collaboration technologies cannot fully support natural human communication. - Explain the concept of collaboration awareness and give examples of support mechanisms in collaboration technologies. - To explain the concept of the common background of the partners as a necessary property of the collaboration. - To describe the concept of coupled work and to give examples of closely and loosely coupled cooperative work. - To describe the important dimensions of the social and organizational dynamics of cooperative work. - To explain the dimensions of degree of intervention and internal/external validity of collaborative work study methods. - To explain why activity theory is useful in an ethnographic study. - To refer to important characteristics of case studies when they are used as a method of evaluating collaborative work. - State the inherent advantages and disadvantages of collaborative work experiments. - To prepare a study plan for a specific case of collaborative work, with one of the methods described.
Linguistic Editors: Kasdagli, Stella Georgia
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/2769
Bibliographic Reference: Koutsabasis, P. (2015). Evaluation of Cooperative Work [Chapter]. In Koutsabasis, P. 2015. User -Centered Evaluation of Interactive Systems [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/2769
Language: Greek
Is Part of: User -Centered Evaluation of Interactive Systems
Number of pages 70
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions