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 have an introduction to Computer Mediated Communication.

Students must:

- Understand key concepts and challenges in computer-supported collaboration media;

- Understand common concepts for social network analysis;

- Develop competence to design and develop new collaborative media;

- Develop competence to architect systems of shared interactive objects;

- Understand and evaluate desirable qualities of shared media.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Introduction to practice-based computing.

Topics in CMC/CSCW (Presence, Proxemics, Context, Sharing, Privacy, Trust).

The construction of Place and Time in synchronous and asynchronous environments.

Awareness of others, their intentions and actions. Designing for We-Awareness.

Breakdowns and support of Coordination, Cooperation and Co-construction activities in CSCW.

Boundary objects, epistemic objects and creative collaborations.

Project for participation; Design of shared and malleable interactive objects.

Graph concepts; metrics and their usefulness in computing in social networks.

Software architectures for shared computing media.

Artifact ecologies in computer-mediated activity contexts.

Articulation of Social Computing phenomena (participation, community, virality, ethics).

Head Lecturer(s)

Mariana Seiça Paiva de Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 50.0%
Resolution Problems: 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

Murray (2011). Inventing the Medium, MIT Press.