= 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.