The memoirs of two survivors: or evaluation of a computer system for cooperative work

Gro Bjerknes; Tone Bratteteig

doi:10.1145/62266.62280

The memoirs of two survivors: or evaluation of a computer system for cooperative work

Gro Bjerknes, Tone Bratteteig

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Abstract

The paper you hold in your hands tells the story of the last evaluation meeting in the Florence project. The Florence project delt with use of computers in nurses' daily work, and in the project a small and rather simple computer system was developed. The computer system was intended to support cooperative aspects of the nurses' work. During the evaluation meeting it turned out that the nurses find the system useful, even though they cannot fully explain why. Thus we may say that we survived The Ultimate Test of the computer system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CSCW '88 - Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	167-177
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	0897912829, 9780897912822
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/62266.62280
Publication status	Published - 1988
Externally published	Yes

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The memoirs of two survivors : or evaluation of a computer system for cooperative work. / Bjerknes, Gro; Bratteteig, Tone.

CSCW '88 - Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1988. p. 167-177.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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