ECSCW 2007
Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Limerick, Ireland, 24-28 September 2007
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This essay briefly outlines the historical and intellectual development of the HCI field. It notes the shift from the early study of machine operators in industrial human factors to the study of blue and white...
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Almost two decades ago, I published an article entitled “From Human Factors to Human Actors” (Bannon, 1991) in the book “Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems” (Greenbaum and Kyng 1991). This ...
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The field of software engineering has been evolving since its inception in 1968. Arguments as to the exact nature of the field, whether it should be conceived as a real engineering profession, the role of form...
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This paper provides a nuanced perspective on the topic of user-centred design (UCD) in the human–computer interaction (HCI) field. After a brief outline of its emergence, we describe some of the central tenets...
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The field of HCI has evolved and expanded dramatically since its origin in the early 1980’s. The HCI community embraces a large community of researchers and practitioners around the world, from a variety of di...
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In this chapter we examine the role of computer science (CS) in the field of technology-enhanced learning (TEL). CS encompasses a number of distinct intellectual traditions, generating debates about the nature...
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Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Limerick, Ireland, 24-28 September 2007
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This chapter outlines a “human-centred” perspective on the design of novel interactive artefacts and environments. The approach builds on a variety of human and social science traditions that focus on understa...
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This paper provides an overview of the concept of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL). While there is no clear shared conceptualisation of the field at the moment, some interesting issues concerni...
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This paper provides a glimpse of some different theoretical frameworks and empirical methods in the author's search for theories and practices that might improve the utility and usability of computer artifacts...