HLTH 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Collaborative Software

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH 107
• Professor: David Taylor

Document Summary

Cscw: the process of using computers to support group or team acivity is termed computer-supported cooperaive work, and the sotware that supports such acivity as groupware. Groups id an aggregaion of people who work together, but have limited role difereniaion. Team: is a small number of people with complementary skills and speciic roles or funcions who interact dynamically toward a common purpose. Diferent imes and place people will collaborate together. During 1980s, 1990s there was an iniial focus on tradiional oice work, sharing informaion with co workers. Circa 2004, internet gained widespread use and the we collaborated changed: google, facebook, twiter, world of warcrat.