collaborative work

Collaborative procrastination

The problem of inconsistent planning in decision making, which leads to undesirable effects such as procrastination, has been studied in the behavioral-economics literature, and more recently in the context of computational behavioral models. Individuals, however, do not function in isolation, and successful projects most often rely on team work. Team performance does not depend only on the skills of the individual team members, but also on other collective factors, such as team spirit and cohesion.

Co-designing collaborative care work through ethnography

This paper focuses on instances of ethnographically-informed design of collaborative systems as they emerge from two European projects that aim to develop sociotechnical infrastructures based on more just collaborative practices. We outline a number of issues emerged related to the role of language, the relationship between digital and physical public engagement, and commonality, and their impact on design processes. Our contribution aims to uncover how ethnographically-informed design can support caring-based practices of social collaboration in different contexts.

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