Acta Psychologica Sinica


Volume 29 No 1, pp. 104-110 (January 1997)

PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH ON COMPUTER-SUPPORTED CO-OPERATIVE WORK

FU Xiaolan, Gary M. OLSON and Judith S. OLSON Abstract
Computer-supported co-operative work (CSCW) is a new topic that blends applied computer science and cognitive science. The focus of CSCW is group work that can be supported by some kind of technology. There are a large number of psychological issues in this field. Psychologists need to understand the nature of group work to evaluate whether the new technology fits the group work. We found a number of contributions from psychology to the understanding of how to build technology and what might be successful. In this paper, we described first the dimensions in this field, some other important psychological issues, and finally as an example some work done at the University of Michigan.
Keywords: Computer-supported co-operative work (CSCW), group work, psychology.

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