Social and temporal structures in everyday collaboration

Everyday work frequently involves coordinating and collaborating with others, but the structure of collaboration is largely invisible to conventional desktop applications. We are exploring ways to support everyday collaboration by allowing applications access to the social, organizational, and temporal settings within which work is conducted. In this paper, we present two generations of systems supporting everyday collaboration, focusing on ways to recover and represent the temporal and social structures of online activity.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Danyel Fisher, Paul Dourish
• Keywords: CHI 2004, Conventional Desktop Applications, Everyday Collaboration, Everyday Work, Human Computer Interaction