Table of Contents

• Title page
• Index page
• Introduction
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Cooperative work
• Why people strive for membership of a group
• Group process gains and losses
• The notion of common ground
• A circumplex model of group task types
• Communication channels
• Computer support for cooperative work
• Enabling technology or improving group productivity
• Environmental facets of group work
• Characteristics of the task on which the group is working
• Computer supported collaborative writing
• Effects of CSCW systems
• The COOPerator
• Classification of The COOPerator
• Results of the brainstorm sessions
• The document facility
• The issue space: structuring group discussion
• The mail facility
• The graph and the browser
• The agenda
• An overview of the technical environment
• The COOPerator: what it does not support
• An introduction to human-computer interfaces
• A history of interaction
• Toward a user-centered perspective
• Object orientation and Direct manipulation
• Metaphors
• Hypertext and hypermedia
• CSCW influences the human-computer interface
• The human-computer interface of COOPerator's client application
• Separating the human-computer interface: the COOPerator engineering model
• Prototyping
• The MVC framework and Microsoft Windows ®
• The document facility
• The agenda
• The graphical browser
• The mail-facility
• A generic toolbar
• Conclusions and recommendations
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Meet the team that brings you The COOPerator!