[sum] Computer-Aid

In this week, we talk about Computer-Aid.

Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is a design-oriented academic field bringing together social psychologists, sociologists, and computer scientists, among others. Despite the variety of disciplines, CSCW is an identifiable research field focused on understanding characteristics of interdependent group work with the objective of designing adequate computer-based technology to support such cooperative work.

Winograd and Flores present a methodology for CSCW analysis and design. They think conversations are sequences of actions because by saying things people are understood to be doing things;

Technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships. Every digital media technology has an architecture that can be used to transform work, play and governance.

As physical architecture and digital architecture, For example The book, The Social Logic of Space by Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson, presents a general theory of physical architecture influences social relationships.

Example of Cyberspace architecture is second life2.

People make media and then media make people.

Agre’s “surveillance model” is visual metaphors or assumption that watching is non-disruptive. The surveillance means close watch kept over someone or something.

As history of surveillance, we know that in the panopticon. Panopticon developed by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century for prison. In the 18th century prisons and hospitals was known, in France, collectively as “environments of humanity”.

My think about this subject is some difficult to me. But One important thing is that Computer-aid help design work for human.

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