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Remote Cooperation: CSCW Issues for Mobile and Teleworkers

Computer supported work is increasingly being done out of the traditional office environment, for example whilst travelling or at home and there is a growing need to support the cooperative aspects of such work. Remote Cooperation looks at ways of improving the available communications, through the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dix, Alan J., Beale, Russell (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 1996, 1996
Edition:1st ed. 1996
Series:Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Subjects:
Computer Communication Networks
User Interfaces (computer Systems)
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks 
It In Business
User Interfaces And Human Computer Interaction
Business Information Services
Human-computer Interaction
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 3.4 CSCW on the Construction Site: a Possible Scenario
  • 3.5 The Electronic Hard Hat
  • 3.6 Future Scenarios
  • 3.7 Conclusion: A Plea to Communications Companies
  • 4 Support for Community Care
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Community Health Services and Community Care Workers
  • 4.3 Community Care Systems
  • 4.4 The Field Trial of System B
  • 4.5 Some Results of the Evaluation Exercise
  • 4.6 Comparison with System A
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • 5 The’ salesman’s Promise’: CSCW in Sales
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 The Cell Based Factory
  • 5.3 Sales Scenarios
  • 5.4 Product Advisor
  • 5.5 Conclusions
  • 6 Observations on Practically Perfect CSCW
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 General Requirements
  • 6.3 Toward Observational Properties
  • 6.4 Using the Model
  • 6.5 Toward Practically Perfect CSCW
  • 6.6 Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • 7 Personal Information Management in theContext of Collaborative Work
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 10.5 The Impact of Mobility on Distributed Systems Platforms
  • 10.6 The MOST Approach
  • 10.7 Concluding Remarks
  • 11 The Distributed Home Environment and the New Oikos
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 The Oikos Concept
  • 11.3 The Distributed Home and Telework
  • 11.4 The Homelink Project
  • 11.5 Future Directions
  • 11.6 Summary
  • 12 Teaching, Learning and Collaborating at a Virtual Summer School
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 Design Issues
  • 12.3 Teaching and Learning at a VSS
  • 12.4 Evaluation and Discussion
  • 12.5 Discussion and Conclusions
  • Appendix: A Detailed Profile of the VSS Students
  • References
  • Name Index
  • 7.2 Personal Information Management and the Representational Focus
  • 7.3 Time Management: A Case for CSCW?
  • 7.4 Personal Information Management and CSCW
  • 8 Activity Coordination in Decentralized Working Environments
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Some Aspects of Activity Coordination
  • 8.3 The Task Manager: An Example for Activity Coordination
  • 8.4 Consistency in an Asynchronous Environment
  • 8.5 Conflict Handling
  • 8.6 Mobility and Activity Coordination
  • 8.7 Summary
  • 8.8 Outlook
  • 9 Information Requirements of Distributed Workers
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Background — The Workers and the Technology
  • 9.3 Principal Topics
  • 9.4 Retrieval and Caching
  • 9.5 Synchronization
  • 9.6 Other Areas and Future Work
  • 9.7 Summary
  • 10 Mobile Open Systems Technology for the Utilities Industries
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Requirements of Mobile Utilities Workers
  • 10.3 Integration Technologies
  • 10.4 Mobile Computing Technologies
  • So Near Yet So Far
  • The Structure of this Book
  • Framing the Problem
  • Future Directions and Further Information
  • 1 Working in the Virtual Office
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Why Are People Working in Virtual Offices?
  • 1.3 Technology for the Virtual Office
  • 1.4 Advantages of Working in a Virtual Office
  • 1.5 Disadvantages of Working in a Virtual Office
  • 1.6 Addressing the Disadvantages of the Virtual Office
  • 2 CSCW for the Mobile Teleworker
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 How Telework Concepts Affect Field Based Mobile Workers
  • 2.3 How Telework Concepts Affect Intrinsically Mobile Workers
  • 2.4 The Basic Technology for Mobile Telework
  • 2.5 The Role of CSCW
  • 2.6 The Basic Technology of CSCW for Mobile Workers
  • 2.7 The Interaction Between CSCW and Telework
  • 2.8 Teamworking Across Enterprise Boundaries
  • 3 The Electronic Hard Hat: CSCW on the Construction Site
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Review of Past Work
  • 3.3 Available Technology

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