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This paper discusses how CSCW concepts and approaches can help gain an understanding of IoT from a social and practice perspective. It raised concerns about designing technologies for the future. The authors argue that CSCW can make important contributions to the development of IoT technologies. The authors suggest the conceptualization of the cooperation between objects…

This paper discusses the increase between interconnectivity with IOT objects and the interaction within these spaces. The analyze this by using CSCW concepts such as coordination mechanism, differences across contexts, common information spaces, and awareness. This paper address how using these concepts can impact how IOT technologies are designed in the future. The authors also…

This paper in five sentences: People should look at IoT through the lens of CSCW and here’s why. IoT is objects cooperating or “socialising” with each other and with people. The objects and people need to coordinate to be effective. Context needs to be taken into account. We should study how people use IoT technology…

As it is the last reading assignments we have on CSCW AND the topic is on CSCW, I just thought that it’s appropriate to do a reflection on CSCW itself based on the paper we read. We are finally at the end of the course after all! The paper is basically “CSCW and the Internet…

Robertson, Toni, and Ina Wagner. “CSCW and the Internet of Things.” ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19-23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway. Springer, Cham, 2015. The authors look at the Internet of Things from the lens of Computer-Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW). The authors urge us to analyze existing and…

Summary: Soylent is a word processor crowdsourcing application that allows Amazon’s Mechanical Turks to improve, proofread documents on demand.  The application is broken into three main segments: shortn, crowdproof, and the human macro. Their contributions to this paper include using the paid crowd workers to analyze and understand tasks that the computer cannot do. The…

This paper discusses the importance of trust between people during computer-mediated communication (CMC). Face to face meetings before CMC can improve trust, but this is not always possible. The authors show that trust is much higher if people do not meet beforehand but rather engage in various getting-acquainted activities over a network when compared to…

“Trust without Touch: Jumpstarting long-distance trust with initial social activities” presented by Jun Zheng et al. , talks about the importance of communication with partners before working and how the face-to-face interaction isn’t necessarily the only way of establishing trust between partners. Summary: It was thought that, remote groups don’t work as well as the…

“Jun Zheng, Elizabeth Veinott, Nathan Bos, Judith S. Olson, and Gary M. Olson. 2002. Trust without touch: jumpstarting long-distance trust with initial social activities. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’02). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 141-146. DOI: https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/10.1145/503376.503402″ Zheng at al begin by explaining how traditionally a physical contact…

Objects, locations, and situations are interconnected through a kind of network that enables their coordination, interaction, and cooperation. Such a pervasive presence of connections is the Internet of Things (IoT). These clusters of objects work together to achieve individual and common goals. Typically, these objects are digital or technical smart objects. Because of the common…