CSCW'92 workshop report: understanding and supporting successful group work in software design

  • Authors:
  • John Karat;John Bennett

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Fifteen people participated in the one day workshop held at CSCW'92 in Toronto on October 31, 1992. The workshop announcement invited experienced practitioners and reflective researchers to submit short position papers as background for discussion. The focus was on how people doing software design activities in groups can be effectively supported. Our overall objective was to create a dialog within which we could characterize a microcosm of group work that takes place during the complex activity of design. If we could develop some understanding of design aspects, we could then identify different types of support and interventions that might be helpful. In this way each of us as individuals in our subsequent work might increase the probability of outcomes considered successful in terms of both design team results and design team processes.