9th European Conference on
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

Workshop 7. Sunday 18 September
Supporting Appropriation Work: Approaches for the 'reflective' user

Yvonne Dittrich, IT University Copenhagen, Denmark
Paul Dourish, University of California at Irvine, USA
Anders Mørch, InterMedia, University of Oslo, Norway
Volkmar Pipek (contact person), International Institute for Socio-Informatics, Bonn, Germany
Gunnar Stevens, University of Siegen, Germany
Bettina Törpel, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

The challenge that computer systems for cooperative work should not only be designed to support users in performing cooperative work tasks, but also to support users in appropriating the new collaborative technology, has been formulated almost 15 years ago (Schmidt 1991). CSCW Research regarding that challenge either based on the more analytical perspective of describing the dynamics of appropriation (‘evolving use’), or focused on the development of technologies to alter the artifacts (‘Tailoring’, ‘End User Development’).

This workshops aims at establishing a broader research focus on technological and non-technological approaches to support users in reflecting and re-designing the use (and non-use) of collaborative technologies and to set out a research agenda for supporting appropriation work in collaborative settings.

For details about the workshop and how to submit: http://www.iisi.de/fileadmin/IISI/upload/Workshops/2005ECSCW_AppropriationWork/workshop.htm

Submission deadline: June 20
Notification : early July.