Issues of Supporting Organizational Context in CSCW Systems

This report documents the work in Strand 1 of the COMIC project concerning the nature and support of what has been termed “organizational context” in CSCW systems. The report provides a variety of approaches to understanding concepts of organization and context, and their implications for computer support. Document ID D1.1 Status Accepted Type Deliverable Version 2.0 Date October 1, 1993 Editors L. Bannon and K. Schmidt (Risø) Task 1.1 ISBN 0-901800-28-27 Lancaster University, 1993 This report is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.comp.lancs.ac.uk.  The COMIC Project, Esprit Basic Research Action 6225 Project coordinator: Tom Rodden Computing Department University of Lancaster Lancaster LA1 4YR United Kingdom Phone: (+44) 524 593 823 Fax: (+44) 524 593 608 Email: [email protected] The COMIC project comprises the following institutions: Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD), Bonn, Germany Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden Swedish Institute for Computer Science (SICS), Stockholm, Sweden Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom (Coordinating Partner) University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom University of Milano, Milano, Italy University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Editors of this report: Kjeld Schmidt Liam Bannon Cognitive Systems Group Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems Risoe National Laboratory University of Limerick P.O. Box 49 Limerick DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark Ireland Phone: (+45) 4677 5146 Phone: (+353) 61-333644 / 5027 Fax: (+45) 4675 5170 Fax: (+353) 61-330876 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]