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Recognizing and supporting roles in CSCW

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In this paper, we describe our experience with the long-term, widespread use of CoWeb, an asynchronous collaborative tool that is mostly used to complement existing face-to-face groups (such as classes). The CoWeb is an openended tool that does not enforce or explicitly support specific roles or usage, yet several well-defined uses and roles have emerged over time. In our design methodology, we recognize these roles and refine our collaboration environment to better support them.

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                CSCW '00: Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
                December 2000
                346 pages
                ISBN:1581132220
                DOI:10.1145/358916

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