Groupware Design for Loose Coupling: Lessons from Home Care

David Pinelle Department of Computer Science University of Saskatchewan

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR DATE: Monday, February 23, 2004 TIME: 3:30 p.m. PLACE: Agriculture 2E25 *** Everyone is welcome ***

Abstract

Loosely coupled workgroups are common but have not been studied in detail in Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Therefore, it is not clear what their support requirements are and how groupware systems should be designed to address their needs. To investigate these issues, I carried out a study of loose coupling in home care treatment teams. In this talk, I will discuss this research, including: work and collaboration patterns in loosely coupled groups, a mobile groupware system we developed to support loose coupling in home care, and design lessons from field trials of the system.

About the speaker

David is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan. He received a B.Sc. in occupational therapy from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in 1994 and worked for 5 years as an occupational therapist in home care, rehab units, and clinics in Texas and St. Louis. In 1999 he moved to Saskatoon and entered the computer science graduate program. His research interests are computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, medical informatics, and mobile computing.

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