CHI 98 Conference Program April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, CA USA

Steven Poltrock Sessions

Tutorial: 8. CSCW, Groupware and Workflow: Experiences, State of the Art and Future Trends

Sunday 09:00 - 17:30.

Steven Poltrock, Boeing Information and Support Services; Jonathan Grudin, University of California at Irvine

Benefits
You will learn what groupware technologies are being used, what problems people have encountered and how successes were obtained.

Origins
Popular at previous CHI conferences, this tutorial has been revised for CHI 98.

Features

Audience
Designers, developers, researchers, marketers and managers who need to know about the current possibilities and future trends of CSCW, groupware or workflow systems. A general background in HCI and experience working collaboratively is assumed. Broad knowledge or experience with collaborative technologies is not expected.

Presentation
Lectures and structured activities.

Instructors
Steven Poltrock and Jonathan Grudin, Co-Chairs of CSCW 98, began collaborating in 1986. Jonathan Grudin, Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, has worked as a developer and researcher, and has published numerous technical and popular articles. Steven Poltrock introduces, evaluates and deploys groupware systems that support information sharing, organizational memory, concurrent engineering, collaborative authoring and workflow management. Together they have authored several overviews of CSCW and groupware.

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