Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Analyzing due process in the workplace
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) - Special issue: selected papers from the conference on office information systems
Coordination mechanisms: towards a conceptual foundation of CSCW systems design
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on the design of cooperative systems
From the social to the systematic
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on studies of cooperative design
Artificial Life
Future Generation Computer Systems
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The Problem with 'Awareness': Introductory Remarks on 'Awareness in CSCW'
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Towards Multi-Swarm Problem Solving in Networks
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Ordering Systems: Coordinative Practices and Artifacts in Architectural Design and Planning
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
A web of coordinative artifacts: collaborative work at a hospital ward
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Practices of stigmergy in architectural work
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
The logic of practices of stigmergy: representational artifacts in architectural design
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Coordinative Practices in the Building Process: An Ethnographic Perspective
Coordinative Practices in the Building Process: An Ethnographic Perspective
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Actors coordinate their cooperative efforts by acting on the evidence of work previously accomplished. Based on a field study this article introduces the concept of stigmergy to the analysis of coordinative practices in the building process. It distinguishes between practices of stigmergy, articulation work and awareness practices. Stigmergy is understood as coordination achieved by acting directly on the evidence of work previously accomplished by others. The article provides descriptions of stigmergy in the building process i.e. in design as well as construction work. It seeks to (1) introduce the concept of stigmergy to CSCW, (2) to delimit this concept in regard to other concepts of coordination such as articulation work and awareness and (3) to provide descriptions of practices of stigmergy in the building process and, in this capacity, to help explain how complex large-scale cooperative work is coordinated.