A Commitment-Based Framework for Describing Informal Cooperative Work*

A Commitment-Based Framework for Describing Informal Cooperative Work

In this paper we present a framework for describing cooperative work in informal domains such as an office. We argue that standard models of such work are inadequate for describing the adaptibility and variabil ity observed in offices, and are fundamentally misleading as metaphors for understanding the skills and knowledge needed by computers or people to do the work. The basic claim in our alt...

ANTS Framework for Cooperative Work Environments

Towards a Design Research Framework for Designing Support Informal Work-Based Learning

This workshop a ims to bring together different experiences of various design approaches for active and early scaling up of the appropriation of tools and practices. There exists, many Design Research approaches for developing TEL, but synthesising these approaches into a systematic framework is rare, even more so for scaling the use of TEL to support informal work-based learning. We briefly de...

A Framework for Compassion-Based Teaching

To present a framework for compassionate teaching, the views of teachers and students on the topic were sought. These informants were chosen from among their corresponding populations in Tehran, using the snowball and mixed methods. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather the needed data. To analyze the data open coding and descriptive categorization were utilized. Results show that from...

A Framework for Sketch-Based Cooperative Design

This paper presents an application framework for constructing sketch-based cooperative design (especially for distributed conceptual design) tools. Three key issues are addressed: (1) how to represent and store sketch document; (2) how does the system infer the designers’ intention and help them to complete the design process; (3) how to implement the communication between the client and the se...