Quote: SCRAM defines a shared, central release area and multiple, developer areas; each developer area is an incremental change to a release area [»willC4_2001]

Quote: a coordination system has concurrent roles, automated and user roles, and formal interactions with coincident state change [»holtAW5_1983]

Quote: with a coordination system, a computing system is bound by organizational intentions instead of computational intentions by independent users [»holtAW5_1983]

Quote: computers now participate in the establishment, maintenance, and abrogation of communication relationships between people [»holtAW2_1974]

Quote: high levels of activity in a groupware system attracts additional use

Quote: coordination environments address formal coordination by rules [»holtAW_1997]

Quote: the Internet fails to help people institute and follow rules; could interconnect through flexible, world-wide, organized activities

Quote: survey of coordination theory for managing dependencies among activities; e.g., shared resources, producer/consumer, simultaneity constraints, task/subtask [»maloTW3_1994]

Quote: shared systems serving simultaneous functions with differing security properties; makes computers meeting places [»kampPH7_2004]

Quote: computer users have become a community with a diversity of roles and concurrent computer use; no longer just need computation [»holtAW2_1974]

Quote: constructing a large software system requires communication and coordination [»tichWF9_1979]

Quote: continuing communication and coordination required for software change management of large systems [»tichWF9_1979]

Quote: humans can play many concurrent roles for processes at different levels; should be definable and coordinated [»engeDC_1963]

Quote: instead of increasing an individual's productivity, a coordination system decreases the amount of work; e.g., software trouble reports [»knobK9_1981]

Quote: NASA flight controllers use at least four voice loops to coordinate activity: from flight director, between air and ground, with support staff, and ad-hoc conferences [»wattJC_1996]

Quote: computer support systems provide raw data; voice loops carry integrated, event-level information [»wattJC_1996]

Quote: initially in the iterated prisoner's dilemma, subjects did not cooperate; communication lead to cooperation

Quote: standardize the preparation of control tapes and operating instructions; group enterprise; minimizes special instructions [»compHU_1946]

Quote: if action is primary, than computers should participate in speech acts that create commitments [»winoT_1986]

Quote: two levels of acceptance needed because a user can tentatively agree to attend conflicting meetings

Quote: a business letter is a set of intentional acts that invokes new actions; could support directly by a computer network [»florCF1_1982]

Quote: associated with each role is a set of possible states; an activity changes the states of the corresponding actors [»holtAW_1979]

Quote: a social machine occurs when people perform repeatable actions with repeatable results that can fail to meet standards [»holtAW_1997]

Quote: organized activity is performed in terms of clearly understood, repeatable units; e.g., 3/4" flat-head, pipette, McDonald's [»holtAW_1997]

Quote: an ACTION depends on its ORGANIZATIONAL and PERSONAL context; e.g., peeling potatoes at work differs from the same action at home [»holtAW_1997]

Quote: every ACTION is driven by PERSONAL and ORGANIZATIONAL INTERESTS; make organized activity efficient by aligning INTERESTS [»holtAW_1997]

Quote: an Igo UNIT is a center; a virtual place for fulfilling one of your activity commitments [»holtAW_1997]

Quote: Igo is a system for managing responsibilities, keeping a person coordinated with himself [»holtAW_1997]

Quote: coordination is the putting together of many ACTIONS into organized activities [»holtAW_1997]

Quote: the key to personal role management is organizing information according to one's roles; create/abandon roles, insert/delete sub-roles, combine roles and objects [»kandE3_1998]

Quote: make a role's schedules, documents, and correspondence visually available; visual cues of goals, tasks, events, and related individuals

Quote: Linda is a coordination language for use with a traditional programming language; creates a complete language [»geleD2_1992]

Quote: a computational language includes a degenerate coordination language in its global variables and argument-passing; for communication [»geleD2_1992]

Quote: coordination systems have been unsuccessful because those that benefit aren't those that must do additional work; also weak intuition and evaluation [»grudJ9_1988]

Quote: work group software is liable to sabotage by co-workers [»dvorJC9_1988]

Quote: collaboration is not a separable activity like composing a letter; it is a natural part of everyday work tasks [»wexeA4_1992]

Quote: an automated trouble reporting system discouraged trouble-shooting conversations to identify the problem and its solution; ended up working around the system [»sachP9_1995]

Quote: groupware systems show a threshold effect where usage falls rapidly if there is insufficient activity [»ackeMS6_1996]

Quote: informal coordination is more efficient and flexible than formal coordination; more dependent on shared understandings [»holtAW_1997]