INT2 - Design for Collaborative Computing

Requirements

90 hp Computer and Systems Sciences with at least:

• 7,5 hp human-computer interaction

Aim

After having attended the course participants should be able to:

• Identify and tackle design challenges in the development of technologies for computer-based collaboration
• Reflect and discuss technological and social issues in the use of groupware
• Evaluate collaborative technology taking into consideration how it fits individual, social and technical aspects of the user situation
• Apply and reflect on concepts for analyzing social interaction in computer-mediated-activities
• Apply and reflect on key-design concepts for the development of groupware applications
• Synthesize recent research in the field of CSCW and Social computing and its related technologies
• Value and judge evaluation techniques for assessing groupware applications

Syllabus

The course covers the following topics:

• Collaboration technology features and categories
• Psychology of teams, social communities functioning
• Ethnography in System Design
• Awareness
• Coordination mechanisms
• Place and Space issues
• Social navigation of information space
• Privacy
• Folksonomies
• Evaluation of collaborative technologies

Examples of collaborative technologies we treat in this course are: wikis, webblogs, computer games, collaborative editing and collaborative filtering.