Communication breakdowns and boundary spanning activities on large programming projects
Empirical studies of programmers: second workshop
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Designing engineers
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Getting others to get it right: an ethnography of design work in the fashion industry
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Documents and professional practice: “bad” organisational reasons for “good” clinical records
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Coordination mechanisms: towards a conceptual foundation of CSCW systems design
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on the design of cooperative systems
Understanding the role of documents in a hierarchical flow of work
GROUP '97 Proceedings of the international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work: the integration challenge
Cooperative knowledge work and practices of trust: sharing environmental planning data sets
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Six roles of documents in professionals' work
Proceedings of the Sixth European conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Supporting shared information systems: boundary objects, communities, and brokering
ICIS '00 Proceedings of the twenty first international conference on Information systems
The Communication Bottleneck in Knitwear Design: Analysis and Computing Solutions
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
On Line and on Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering
Inside the IMF: An Ethnography of Documents, Technology, and Organizational Action
Inside the IMF: An Ethnography of Documents, Technology, and Organizational Action
Achieving safety: a field study of boundary objects in aircraft technical support
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Boundary Objects and Prototypesat the Interfaces of Engineering Design
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Intermediary Objects as a Means to Foster Co-operation inEngineering Design
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Making sense of collaboration: the challenge of thinking together in global design teams
GROUP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Ordering Systems: Coordinative Practices and Artifacts in Architectural Design and Planning
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Expressive interactions - supporting collaboration in urban design
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
Engineering the social: The role of shared artifacts
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Integration and Generification--Agile Software Development in the Healthcare Market
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Negotiating boundaries: managing disease at home
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Guidelines for a costume designer's workbench
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Dynamics of Material Artifacts in Collaborative Research Teams
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The Dialectical Tensions in the Funding Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Coordination in innovative design and engineering: observations from a lunar robotics project
Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Building sensitising terms to understand free-play in open-ended interactive art environments
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CPOE workarounds, boundary objects, and assemblages
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Intelligent Decision Technologies - Special issue on knowledge-based environments and services in human-computer interaction
Bridging the Disciplinary Divide: Co-Creating Research Ideas in eScience Teams
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Steps toward a socio-technical categorization scheme for communication and information standards
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
Connecting artefacts of R&D teams to their routines: how boundary objects are created and used
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
Medical secretaries' care of records: the cooperative work of a non-clinical group
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Collaborative design of an oceanographic event logger
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Interactional identity: designers and developers making joint work meaningful and effective
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Unearthing the Infrastructure: Humans and Sensors in Field-Based Scientific Research
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Sharing Knowledge and Expertise: The CSCW View of Knowledge Management
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Supporting Scientific Collaboration: Methods, Tools and Concepts
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Reflections on 25 Years of Ethnography in CSCW
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
A Social Media framework to support Engineering Design Communication
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Creating a model of the dynamics of socio-technical groups
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Empirical studies of material artifacts in practice continue to be a rich source of theoretical concepts for CSCW. This paper explores the foundational concept of boundary objects and questions the conception that all objects that move between communities of practice are boundary objects. This research presents the results of a year-long ethnographic study of collaborative work, specifically the multidisciplinary collaborative design of a museum exhibition. I suggest that artifacts can serve to establish and destabilize protocols themselves and that artifacts can be used to push boundaries rather than merely sailing across them. Artifacts used for collaboration do not necessarily exist within a web of standardized processes and disorderly processes should not be treated as "special cases".