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Cooperative work and lived cognition: a taxonomy of embodied actions

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ECSCW'97: Proceedings of the fifth conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

Pages 205 - 220

Published: 07 September 1997 Publication History

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Based on a field study of cooperative design in a distributed company, this paper identifies and defines the embodied actions of the designers that enabled a cooperative design process. These actions are considered as classes of cognitive practices that are simultaneously available to the actor and others in a shared physical workspace. The public availability of these actions to the perceptions of the participants in a cooperative process enables their communicative functions A taxonomy of embodied actions is developed as a bridging structure between the field study of cooperative work and the design of technology that might support that work over distance.

Boundaries are drawn by mapping practices; "objects" do not pre-exist as such. Objects are boundary projects. But boundaries shift from within; boundaries are very tricky. What boundaries provisionally contain remains generative, productive of meanings and bodies. Siting (sighting) boundaries is a risky practice.

Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges, 1991, p. 200

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Index Terms

Cooperative work and lived cognition: a taxonomy of embodied actions
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
    2. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management

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ECSCW'97: Proceedings of the fifth conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

September 1997

376 pages

ISBN:0792346386

Editors:
John A. Hughes
Lancaster University, U.K
,
Wolfgang Prinz
GMD-FIT.CSCW, Germany
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Tom Rodden
Lancaster University, U.K
,
Kjeld Schmidt
Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark

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Holdens Computer Services Ltd.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

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Kluwer Academic Publishers

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