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Software engineering and CSCW: A common research ground

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Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction (SE-HCI 1994)

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This paper explores the common research ground which the Software Engineering and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work communities share. Both communities share a common research question: how to support the coordination of interdependent work activities. In the Software Engineering community solutions have concentrated on formalizing the coordination of work practices, while Computer-Supported Cooperative Work researchers have focused on increasing the ability of people to communicate. However, leading researchers in these communities have pointed to the weaknesses of these solutions. We suggest that research solutions which combine the two approaches may prove fruitful.

Rebecca E. Grinter is supported by a grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the United Kingdom

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  1. Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, 92717-3425, Irvine

    Jeanne M. Pickering & Rebecca E. Grinter

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Pickering, J.M., Grinter, R.E. (1995). Software engineering and CSCW: A common research ground. In: Taylor, R.N., Coutaz, J. (eds) Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction. SE-HCI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035820

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