CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 11:30am-12:30pm PT · Gates B1 · Open to the public
Deborah Tatar Computer Science at Virginia Tech Microcoordination: a lens for studying the design of collaborative phenomena
February 17, 2012
For the last 25 years I have studied the phenomena of human coordination in the small, using various disciplines and methods. However, taken singly, none these disciplines allow us to ask or answer some of the most important questions that face designers today. Two years ago, I came up with the term "microcoordination" to identify this use of multiple disciplines and methods. Last year NSF funded me to work on it. I will outline a case for using the lens of microcoordination to uncover phenomena at the juncture of human coordinative behavior and system design. Then I will talk about a series of probes my lab group has created to examine the social and personal effects of the relationship between people utilizing collaborative artifacts. |
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