| Intellectual Teamwork: Social and Technological Foundations of Cooperative Work Contributor(s): Galegher, Jolene (Editor), Kraut, Robert E. (Editor), Egido, Carmen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0805805346 ISBN-13: 9780805805345 Publisher: Psychology Press OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Psychology | Industrial & Organizational Psychology |
| Dewey: 302.34 |
| LCCN: 89-17047 |
| Lexile Measure: 1430 |
| Physical Information: 1.64" H x 6.05" W x 9" (1.90 lbs) 552 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book seeks to establish an interdisciplinary, applied social scientific model for researchers and students that advocates a cooperative effort between machines and people. After showing that basic research on social processes offers much needed guidance for those creating technology and designing tools for group work, its papers demonstrate the mutual relevance of social science and information system design, and encourage better integration of these disciplines. br br This comprehensive collection closely examines the variety of electronic tools being deployed to solve traditional problems in communication and coordination. Unfortunately, research shows that these tools have not been as successful as their designers had envisioned, partially because they were not always produced with the needs and goals of their human users in mind. The editors' goal is to entice more social scientists to orient their research around questions of practical interest to information system designers and to convince designers to search for the knowledge about social and organizational behavior that would make their tools more useful. br |