TeamWorkStation: towards a seamless shared workspace
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CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Groupware in the wild: lessons learned from a year of virtual collocation
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The Denver model for groupware design
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Supporting the shared care of diabetic patients
GROUP '99 Proceedings of the international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
The geography of coordination: dealing with distance in R&D work
GROUP '99 Proceedings of the international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
The effects of workspace awareness support on the usability of real-time distributed groupware
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
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Exploring support for knowledge management in mobile work
Proceedings of the Sixth European conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Wireless world
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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HCI 97 Proceedings of HCI on People and Computers XII
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Workspace awareness in real-time distributed groupware
Workspace awareness in real-time distributed groupware
Sound support for collaboration
ECSCW'91 Proceedings of the second conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin
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GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Designing for transformations in collaboration: a study of the deployment of homecare technology
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
From ethnography on infrastructure management to initial user feedback on PlaceMemo
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Loose Coupling and Healthcare Organizations: Deployment Strategies for Groupware
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
A groupware design framework for loosely coupled workgroups
ECSCW'05 Proceedings of the ninth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Negotiating boundaries: managing disease at home
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HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: applications and services
Social navigation for loosely-coupled information seeking in tightly-knit groups using webwear
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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Loose coupling is a common way of organizing collaboration in work groups, but it has not been studied extensively in CSCW. In this paper, we consider the patterns of work that are seen in mobile groups that adopt a loosely coupled collaboration style. We report findings from interviews and fieldwork with teams of workers who deliver home healthcare services. In these teams, workers are mobile, widely dispersed, and autonomous, and team members communicate with each other only intermittently. Based on these findings, we identify and discuss four work patterns that occur in loosely coupled mobility: discretionary collaboration and effort thresholds, implicitly shared information, asynchronous communication and coordination, and barriers to synchrony. We consider the implications of these findings for the design of CSCW technologies.