Computer Supported Cooperative Work: A field still to cogitate

摘要

In an organizational sphere of great dynamism and mutability, the effectiveness of group work in companies and institutions is assumed as one of the most important success factors to achieve their objectives. The computer has acquired a strategic task in the support of cooperative work processes, raising a fruitful symbiosis between humans and machines with different functions but strongly interconnected. This article examines the holistic nature of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, an interdisciplinary scientific field that has caused many transformations at the social and technological levels, showing a polymorphic, multidimensional character. In this context, it becomes urgent to articulate the myriad of concepts and technological trends that make up the field on a clear attempt to conglomerate a composite of visions of its nuclear evolutionary origins.