Traveling in Cyberspace
Philip Craiger
University of Nebraska at Omaha
TIP’s new editor, Allan Church, has asked me to stay on
for another term as a TIP columnist, which I’m very happy to do. I’m
taking this issue off, but wanted to let you, the reader, know that future installments of
Traveling in Cyberspace will continue to involve topics regarding the synergy
between humans and computers. In particular, in the next few installments I will discuss
topics involving computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). CSCW is a field of computing
that deals with designing and developing computer systems that support group work,
collaboration, and communication. These systems are particularly important due to the
changing nature of the way in which we perform work, and the subsequent need to support social
computing.
These systems should be of interest to those in business as well as
academia. To give you a sense of the uses (and potential abuses) of these systems I will
discuss the capabilities of these systems, case studies, and where applicable, how I use
these systems in my own work (including research and teaching). CSCW topics will include
video conferencing, meeting and decision support systems, and virtual reality for
training.
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