The COMIC Deliverables are held on the COMIC ftp server.
This deliverable consists of a collection of papers examining the issues around the understanding and support of organisational context in CSCW applications. It combines an understanding of organisational context from a diverse set of disciplines and suggests a means by which alternative views of organisations can be supported.
Editors: Liam Bannon (University of Limerick) and Kjeld Schmidt (Risoe)
ISBN: 0-901800-28-27
Date: October 1993
This deliverable is an integrated report which collects together a wide variety of approaches of relevance to the construction of CSCW systems requirements. It considers the methodological issues inherent in the development of CSCW systems and the problems of relating a range of different disciplines to realise these systems. The work also considers the means by which ethnography can be input to CSCW systems development.
Editors: Lancaster University and Manchester University
ISBN: 0-901800-29-5
Date: October 1993
This deliverable consists of three related parts. The first section is an examination of social mechanisms of interaction drawn from a collection of field studies. The second part presents the comprehensive analysis of CSCW systems (applications, shells, models) that have been analysed in order to unravel and assess the underlying mechanisms of interaction. The final part brings together the above, identifying requirements for mechanisms of interaction , and outlining the conceptual foundation for the design of a notational framework in CSCW systems.
Editors: Carla Simone (Milan) and Kjeld Schmidt (Risoe)
ISBN:0-901800-30-9
Date: October 1993
This deliverable examines the support for shared interaction both within and around objects. It presents a shared object service which supports the sharing of objects and a spatial model of interaction around these shared objects.
Editors: Steve Benford (Nottingham) & John Mariani (Lancaster)
ISBN: 0-901800-31-7
Date: October 1993
This deliverable gives an account of the framework for describing organizations that we are working with. After an introductory chapter which clarifies the status of the framework and the relation that the current work has to past and future work in COMIC, the framework is described and exemplified over nine further chapters and two appendices. The framework attempts to recognise the various theoretical perspectives and orientations pursued in COMIC and integrate them with the perspectives which are guiding technical development. The framework is exemplified through a series of field studies and prototypes alongside theoretical discussion.
Editor: John Bowers (Manchester University)
ISBN: 0-901800-53-8
Date: October 1994
The thrust of this deliverable is mainly methodological in investigating aspects of the relationship between the social analysis of work settings and the systems development context. It has been assumed throughout the work that real world CSCW systems will be large scale and, thus, need be produced by appropriate software engineering processes. In addition, it has also recognised that CSCW raises special problems regarding the effective analysis of the social organisation of work settings and that among the more promising methods in this regard, namely ethnography, does not sit easily with many of the current methods of requirements elicitation and system development.
Editors: Lancaster University and Manchester University
ISBN: 0-901800-54-6
Date: October 1994
This deliverable presents analyses of a number of real-world mechanisms of interaction. In doing that the deliverable focuses on the features of these mechanisms that enable them to provide efficient and flexible support of coordination of distributed activities and the way these mechanisms are managed cooperatively. On the other hand, based on these and other studies, the deliverable presents and discusses a conceptual framework for analysis of mechanisms of interaction and derives a set of requirements for a notation for constructing computational mechanisms of interaction
Editor: Kjeld Schmidt (Risoe)
ISBN: 0-901800-55-4
Date: October 1994
This deliverable argues that a common computational notation for constructing different types of computational mechanisms of interaction is feasible and specifies a three level architecture by means of which the notation in principle makes it possible to construct mechanisms of interaction that are malleable to any degree deemed appropriate for any particular setting.
Editors: Carla Simone (Milan) and Kjeld Schmidt (Risoe)
ISBN: 0-901800-56-2
Date: October 1994
The first portion of this deliverable focuses on the development and prototyping of a computational model of interaction within virtual computer spaces. The second portion of the deliverable presents the work undertaken within task 4.3 of the COMIC project. The work described in this section of the deliverable focuses on the sharing of objects across a community of users.
Editors: Steve Benford, Adrian Bullock (Nottingham University), Ludwin Fuchs (GMD) and John Mariani (Lancaster University)
ISBN: 0-901800-55-4
Date: October 1994
This Deliverable gives an account of a computational model for organisational context. The deliverable contains an introduction followed by the presentation of the research that has been done during the last year in the project. This research is described and exemplified over nine further chapters, that focus on theoretical perspectives and fieldwork investigations as well as computational models and their application.
This deliverable considers the work of the COMIC project on the use of tool support to incorporate the results emerging from field studies into the development process. This work builds upon previous work to consider the use of the tool in the development of a particular prototype and a general reflection on the use of the tool by ethnographers.
This deliverable considers the work of the COMIC project on involving ethnographic studies of work into the development of CSCW systems. The particular focus of our work has been to incorporate ethnographic studies of work into the general set of resources drawn upon by the designers of cooperative systems. This deliverable presents the framework for the analysis and presentation of ethnographic material across a series of field studies. The work on the framework is complemented by an ethnographic handbook that considers best practice in CSCW systems design.
This deliverable presents various prototype systems based on the architecture and notation for constructing computational mechanisms of interaction. Each contribution focuses on one aspect of the work presented in previous deliverables. Finally, reference material and usage scenarios for each prototype are included
The Deliverable assess the models of interaction described in D4.2 from a number of perspectives including estimation of their ability to scale and discussions of usability. The first half of the deliverable presents results from Task 4.2 on spatial interaction, while the second half presents results from Task 4.3 concerning shared artefacts.
This deliverable considers the general nature of the COMIC project. It presents the different contributions brought to the project and the various integrated results which have emerged. The deliverable also reflects on the challenges of integration set out in the project from the outset and how this integration has manifest itself during the project.