XBoard: A Framework for Integrating and Enhancing Collaborative Work Practices

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Shab
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Work Practices

On the Measurement of Participation Equality

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce A. Reinig ◽  
Roberto J. Mejias
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Gini Coefficient ◽  
Coefficient Of Variation ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Group Support Systems ◽  
Group Support ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Team Members

Participation equality is often a key process construct in research models that examine the effects of group support systems (GSS) technology and e-collaboration. GSS are generally thought to reduce the dispersion of participation among team members and thus make participation more equally distributed. However, research conclusions in the literature regarding participation equality are not always consistent with this finding. Researchers have used a variety of approaches to operationalize participation equality including unit-based measures, such as the standard deviation, and dimensionless measures such as the Gini coefficient and the coefficient of variation. Researchers have also varied in their measurement of participation units with some counting phenomena such as comments, words, or remarks. The authors report on an exploratory study that demonstrates conditions in which research conclusions regarding the participation equality construct are dependent on both the participation unit analyzed and whether a unit-based or dimensionless measure is used to compute participation equality. The authors conclude with recommendations for researchers investigating participation equality and practitioners that seek to measure and track participation equality in their collaborative work practices.

Doing Research Upside Down: Action and Research in Cross Self-Confrontations

2019 ◽  
pp. 202-218
Author(s):  
Laure Kloetzer
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Work Analysis ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
Objective Research ◽  
Mainstream Psychology

This paper highlights three main points. Firstly, it argues that despite the positioning of mainstream psychology as “objective research” i.e. disengaged from taking action in public life, there has always been in psychology a (quantitatively) minor but (qualitatively) strong tradition of intervention, defined as a joint practice engaging researchers and practitioners in social transformation. It shows how this alternative way of doing research affects all dimensions of the researchers’ professional practice, for better or for worse. Secondly, it presents a specific perspective on intervention, created in France and used in multiple work settings in the last twenty years, called Clinic of Activity. It then introduces and discusses a methodology designed to support development at work through collaborative work analysis and structured dialogue, the Cross Self Confrontations. Thirdly, it reports on a research in Cross Self-Confrontations recently conducted in a Swiss factory, and shows how this methodology supports the co-creation of knowledge and the development of dialogue within a group of workers and across the hierachical lines, therefore contributing to the deep discussion and transformation of work practices.

The politics of office design

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Roderick
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Office Design ◽  
Open Plan

Abstract Recent changes in open plan office design are intended to facilitate flexible and collaborative work practices. Though promoted in terms of aesthetics and functionality, these changes in layout and furnishing communicate a great deal about how work and the workers that perform them are understood. Drawing upon the semiotics of framing and the chronotope, the open plan office is analyzed as a multimodal realization of neoliberal discourses on the flexibilization and deregulation of work. As such, the collaborative open plan office does more than represent or give expression to neoliberal ideologies, it normalizes and makes durable the work processes, identities and temporalities of neoliberalized labour.

scholarly journals Towards a Technique for Modeling New Forms of Collaborative Work Practices – The Facilitation Process Model 2.0

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Winkler ◽  
Robert O. Briggs ◽  
Gert-Jan de Vreede ◽  
Jan Marco Leimeister ◽  
Sarah Oeste-Reiß ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Work Practices

scholarly journals Mobile devices in the operating room: Intended and unintended consequences for nurses’ work

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1101-1110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Sergeeva ◽  
Kjeld Aij ◽  
Bart van den Hooff ◽  
Marleen Huysman
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Operating Room Nurses

This article reports the results of a case study of the consequences of mobile device use for the work practices of operating room nurses. The study identifies different patterns of mobile technology use by operating room nurses, including both work-related and non-work-related use. These patterns have multiple consequences for nurses, such as improvements in information access, e-learning and work-related communication, as well as a perceived increase in distractions from the collaborative work. We conceptualize these consequences in terms of three level effects and explain how we find both positive and negative consequences on the third level. On the positive side, improvements were found in how nurses spent their unoccupied time during the stable parts of operations, contributing to their well-being and job satisfaction. A negative consequence was the perceived increase in distraction from the collaborative operating room work practices.

scholarly journals Collaboration in initial teacher training for constructing didactic knowledge: a study in Higher Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria João Macário ◽  
Cristina Manuela Sá
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Initial Teacher Training ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
Didactic Knowledge ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

A study was developed with students from a professional master’s degree. The aims were: i) to identify their representations of collaborative work (by means of a questionnaire and an individual written assignment); ii) to understand the impact of these representations on the use of collaborative work practices in online forums (through a questionnaire and messages posted in the forum); iii) to understand how the use of collaborative work in online forums contributes to the construction of didactic knowledge when addressing the issue of spelling (through messages posted in the forum and didactic tools designed by the groups); iv) to understand the contribution of this knowledge to the creation of didactic tools when addressing spelling. Results show the relationship between the appreciation of (and failure to appreciate) collaboration and its use in a collaborative environment, which impacts on the knowledge constructed and therefore on the didactic tools designed by the students.

Why Do We Need to Share Information?

2010 ◽  
pp. 89-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nozomi Ikeya ◽  
Norihisa Awamura ◽  
Shinichiro Sakai
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Task Management ◽  
Collaborative Activity ◽  
Information Behaviour ◽  
Share Information

In order to study collaborative information behaviour (e.g. information search, creation, and sharing) in the work environment, it is important that we take into consideration its embedded nature in collaborative work, however not many studies have actually taken this into consideration. In conducting fieldwork, we studied group task management in the work of IT product hardware designers. The study shows how understanding the details of information activities embedded in task management allowed us to generate some ideas for transforming task management into a more collaborative activity, and for reembedding task management more thoroughly into their work practices together with the practitioners. The paper discusses how taking an ethnomethodological approach can be fruitful for researchers who want to gain a close understanding of actual collaborative information activities and their embedded nature in work, and how understandings of this kind can be important for developing ideas for transforming practice, both with or without the introduction of technology.

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