The memoirs of two survivors: or the evaluation of a computer system for cooperative work

  • Authors:
  • Gro Bjerknes;Tone Bratteteig

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oslo, Department of Informatics;University of Oslo, Department of Informatics

  • Venue:
  • CSCW '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

The paper you hold in your hands tells the story of the last evaluation meeting in the Florence project. The Florence project dealt with use of computers in nurses' daily work, and in the project a small and rather simple computer system was developed. The computer system was intended to support cooperative aspects of the nurses' work. During the evaluation meeting it turned out that the nurses find the system useful, even though they cannot fully explain why. Thus we may say that we survived The Ultimate Test of the computer system.