CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
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Charlotte Lee
University of Washington Introducing a Model of Coordinated Action (MoCA): Redefining the Field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work October 17, 2014 You need Flash player 8+ and JavaScript enabled to view this video.
As computerized technologies and the practices they support continue to grow in diversity, ubiquity, complexity, and scale, the number and type of research topics related to the study of collaborative systems have simultaneously continued to proliferate. It has become increasingly urgent to find ways to describe the problem space of practitioners and researchers in the Human Computer Interaction field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). If we are designing to support coordinated action we should know more about what coordinated action is, and furthermore, we should have better ways to talk about the variations among them. In this way we might get closer to understanding what it means to design for sociotechnical systems that can be simultaneously socially and technically complex and that are subject to frequent changes from both within and without. A conceptual grounding—e.g. theoretical framework—is needed to help us define and describe what it is that the field of CSCW actually studies. In order to further discussions in our field, this talk reviews current models of CSCW and then introduces a new conceptual model, the Model of Coordinated Action (MoCA). The practical implications of MoCA are that it may provide a shared way to find and talk about what we study in CSCW despite its electrifying and daunting diversity.
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