Collaborative and Social Computing

Recommended Prerequisites

Interaction Design, Programming.

Teaching Methods

The methodology is seminar based, with a combination of theoretical presentation and discussion of models, methods and instruments with practical application exercises in delimited contexts and project activities in a studio environment. The student is required to execute weekly assignments consisting on readings, critical analysis and synthesis in response to questions, and a group project where course techniques will be exercised, to develop communication and work organization capacities, with four sessions of presentation & critique, for feedback.

Learning Outcomes

With this unit students will get an introduction to Computer-Mediated Communication.

Students will:

- understand the key concepts and issues in Computer Mediated Communication;

- understand the common challenges in designing for computer supported collaboration;

- understand the common concepts in social network analysis;

- develop competence for designing and developing novel collaborative media;

- develop competence for arquitecting common interactive object systems;

- understand how to evaluate desirable qualities of shared media.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Central themes in the CMC (Presence, Look, Proxemics, Context, Sharing, Privacy, Trust).

The construction of Space, Place and Time in synchronous and asynchronous media. Awareness of others and their actions.

Ecologies of artifacts in the context analysis of computer-mediated activities.

Support for Coordination, Cooperation and Co-construction activities in CSCW.

Boundary objects, epistemic objects and creative collaborations.

Design shared and malleable interactive objects.

Software architectures for shared computing media components.

Key graph concepts and their usefulness in the analysis of social networks.

Articulating Social Computing phenomena (participation, community, virality, crowdsourcing, ethics).

Head Lecturer(s)

Mariana Seiça Paiva de Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Selected texts from CSCW and Social Computing research fields:

Irene Greif (Editor) Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings. Morgan Kaufmann

Grudin (2001) Why groupware applications fail: Problems in design and evaluation.

Grudin, Issues and Challenges. Groupware and social dynamics: eight challenges for developers

Nardi (2005) Context and Consciousness, MIT press

Bodker, Klokmose (2012) HAM and Artifact Ecologies

Bannon, Bodker (2005) Constructing Common Information Spaces

Tenenberg et al (2016) From I awareness to We awareness

Bardram (1998) Designing for the Dynamics of Cooperative Work Activities

Bardram, Houben (2018) Collaborative Affordances of Medical Records

Kittur, Kraut (2008) Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in Wikipedia

Scott, Carpendale, Inkpen (2004) Territoriality in Collaborative Tabetop

Larson-Ledet, Korsgard (2020) Territorial Functioning in Collaborative Writing

Roque, Bodker (2020) Malleability of CIOs.