IMPORTANT INFORMATION May 18 2012: students willing to take the exam in the first exam section are required to hand in their course-work by 13.00 at Costanza Vettori Office on Monday the 28th of May (second floor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, vettori@disi.unitn.it). Please note that no e-mail submission will be accepted: students have to hand in a printed copy of their course-work and either a CD ROM with all empirical data or a clear URL reference of where the data can be found. STRICT DEADLINE: monday 28th at 13 AM.

Students who do not deliver in time are required to deliver their course-work at least two weeks before the date they intend to take the exam at Costanza Vettori office.

Students are invited to fill in a course-work assessment form and to e-mail it to vettori@disi.unitn.it by the 28th of May. The form attached is meant to assess individual contribution to the project and will be taken into consideration for marking individual contribution. Filling it is not mandatory but students may like to have their voice heard into marking student_evaluation_course_work.doc

Computer Supported Co-operative Work (2011-12)

Welcome, this is the main page of the course of Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW). Here you will find news about the course and the course-work assignment.

Lectures

  1. Introduction
  2. Introduction to groupware: communication, collaboration, coordination
  3. Groupware design
  4. evaluation of cscw
  5. introduction to on_line community
  6. usability_sociability
  7. culture
  8. revision slides

Course-work

Here you will find 5 possible topics and methodologies for course-work. Course-work are to be performed by self-selected groups of 3 students – Each course-work has a designated tutor. Groups have to select 1 coursework and contact the tutor by Monday 26 March (strict deadline).

communication.pdf Tutor: Silvia Torsi

Aim: to develop new communication strategies to improve communication within the campus

certified_portfolio.pdf Tutor: Silvia Torsi

Aim: to develop a certified portfolio and fostering connections between different stakeholders (students, academic staff, administrative staff, companies)

crowdsourcing_task.pdf Tutor: Maria Menendez

AIM: to study new tasks to support crowd sourcing

crowdsourcing_users.pdf Tutor: Maria Menendez

AIM: to understand how users demographic affect crowd sourcing task

whatsupcscwproject-final.pdf Tutor: Christian Parra

AIM: to investigate the role of technology to support intragenerational communication

Invited presentations

Background on smart campus – for everybody but especially for the people selecting course-work 1/2

Speaker: Silvia Torsi

Background on Crowdsourcing – for everybody but especially for people wanting to do course-work 3/4

Speaker: Maria Menendez

Background on Life Participation – for everybody but especially for people wanting to do course-work 5

Speaker: Christian Parra

Suggested readings

Cockburn, A and Jones, S. (1995) Four Principles of groupware design. Interacting with computersPrinciples of design

Grudin, J. (1994). Groupware and social dynamics: eight challenges for developers. Communications of the ACM,grudin_eight_challenges.pdf