Abstract
This paper presents insights from an ethnographic study investigating how globally distributed Danish and Indian engineers co-construct and reconfigure a shared socio-technical collaborative space for global interaction. The globally collaborative space was not persistent a priori but co-constructed and reconfigured through place-based activities forming the connections between people, artifacts, and activities. Global places are temporal in nature, thus only traces of the places can persist outside the place-based activities. We show how the engineers chose to transfer their globally distributed plan into a locally tangible and persistent artifact that was useful for handling the articulation work of engineering. This move produced new challenges related to the geographical distribution of the engineers because the locally tangible plan was not globally available.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Olson, G.M., Olson, J.S.: Distance Matters. Human-Computer Interaction 15, 139–178 (2000)
Hinds, P., Mortensen, M.: Understanding Conflict in Geographical Distributed Teams: The Moderating Effects of Shared Identity, Shared Context, and Spontaneous Communication. Organ Scien. 16(3), 290–307 (2005)
Boden, A., Nett, B., Wulf, V.: Trust and social capital: Revisiting an offshoring failure story of a small German software company. In: Proc. European Conference Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2009), Vienna, Austria, September 7-11 (2009)
Klemmer, S., Everitt, K., Landay, J.: Integrating physical and digital interactions on walls for fluid design collaboration. Human-Computer Interaction 23, 128–213 (2008)
Mark, G., Abrams, S., Nassif, N.: Group-to-group distance collaboration: Examining the ”Space Between”. In: Proceeding of the Eighth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Helsinki, Finland, September 14-18, pp. 99–118 (2003)
Harrison, S., Dourish, P.: Replaceing space: The roles of place and space in collaborative systems. In: Proc. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Cambridge, MA, USA (1996)
Hertzum, M.: Six Roles of Documents in Professionals’ Work. In: Book Six Roles of Documents in Professionals’ Work, pp. 41–60. Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht (1999)
Schmidt, K., Bannon, L.: Taking CSCW Seriously: Supporting Articulation Work. Comput. Support Coop. Work 1(1-2), 7–40 (1992)
Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Rodden, T., Pycock, J.: Collaborative virtual environments. CACM 44(7), 79–85 (2001)
Bly, S., Harrison, S., Irwin, S.: Media spaces: Bringing people together in a video, audio, and computing environment. CACM 36(1), 27–47 (1993)
Fitzpatrick, G., Kaplan, S., Mansfield, T.: Physical Spaces, Virtual Places and Social Worlds: A study of work in the virtual, pp. 334–343. ACM, New York (1996)
Dourish, P.: Place and space ten years on Respaceing place. ACM, New York (2006)
Harrison, S., Tatar, D.: Places: People, events, loci - the relations of semantic frames in the construction of place. Comput. Support Coop. Work 17, 97–133 (2008)
Bertelsen, O., Bødker, S.: Cooperation in massively distributed information spaces. In: Proc. European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW), Bonn, Germany, September 16-20 (2001)
Forsythe, D.: It’s just a matter of common sense: Ethnography as Invisible Work. Comput. Support Coop. Work 8, 127–145 (1999)
Randall, D., Harper, R., Rouncefield, M.: Fieldwork for design: Theory and practice. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Prinz, W.: NESSIE: An Awareness Environment for Cooperative Settings. Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht (1999)
Bjørn, P., Christensen, L.R.: Relation work: Creating socio-technical connections in global engineering. In: Proc. European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW). Aarhus University (fortcoming, 2011)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Bjørn, P. (2011). Co-constructing Globally Collaborative Spaces: A Conceptual Study of War Room Meetings as Spaces with Placed-Based Activities. In: Salmela, H., Sell, A. (eds) Nordic Contributions in IS Research. SCIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 86. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22766-0_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22766-0_4
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-22765-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-22766-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)