The widespread adoption of Internet technologies and the integration of communication networks into everyday organizational work has led to an increasing interest in the role that information systems and communication technologies can play in supporting collaboration. ISR's research in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) takes a broad-based approach that focuses as much on the social and organizational factors affecting successful adoption as on the technical challenges for applications and infrastructures. Topics of current interest include the role of technology in supporting distributed and mobile work; the use of virtual meeting technologies in large organisations; infrastructures for group information management; expertise recommendation; virtual worlds supporting working communities; and awareness technologies.

Faculty

Mark S. Ackerman, University of Michigan
Paul Dourish
Alfred Kobsa
Gloria Mark
David Redmiles
André van der Hoek

Projects

Cooperation Awareness and Privacy - Negotiating group awareness needs with individual privacy preferences.
Expertise Networks
Organizational Memory
Social Worlds

Awareness Technologies

  CASSIUS - Ubiquitous awareness environment.
  Awareness Gauges - Visualizations of diverse aspects of system performance to support the development and deployment of software.
  Knowledge Depot - A web-based tool for maintaining awareness of work related group discussions.
  Palantír - Bringing distributed awareness to configuration management.

Other Links

ICS Computing Organizations Policy and Society (CORPS) Research Group

Software research emphases:

Analysis and Testing | CSCW | Compiler Technology | Configuration Management | Environments | Human-Computer Interaction | Hypermedia | Internet-scale Event Notification | Open Source Software Development | Software Acquisition and Ecommerce | Software Architecture | Software Engineering Education | Software Understanding