Special issue on user-centred design and evaluation of ubiquitous groupware

摘要

In the 1970s and 1980s, most work on supporting group and teamwork by means of computer technology focused on supporting decision processes for groups of people being physically together. With the advent of network technology, the focus shifted towards supporting group and teamwork at a distance and indeed for many people CSCW has become synonymous with supporting distributed collaboration, both synchronous and a-synchronous. Recently, with the advent of perceptual technologies (mainly computer vision, speech recognition), research projects have emerged that again focus on co-located collaboration.