Faculty of Science

Theoretical Foundations in Collaborative Work and Computer Supported Practice
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5154-16-02-31
	Enrollment deadline: 12/02/2016

Place

DIKU
University of Copenhagen, 2300 København S

Date and time

12.02.2016, at: 00:00 - 10.06.2016, at: 00:00

Regular seats

Lecturers

Pernille Bjørn

ECTS credits

7.50

Contact person

Pernille Bjørn E-mail address: pernille.bjorn@di.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser

Pernille Bjørn E-mail address: pernille.bjorn@di.ku.dk

Exam requirements

The course is offered for PhD students enrolled in PhD programs at University of Copenhagen, Computer Science, and other Danish, Nordic, European, or International Universities.

Grading scale

Passed / Not passed

Criteria for exam assessment

Type of assessment: Course participation including presentations for each lecture Exam registration requirements: preparation and attendance Criteria for exam assessment: Preparation and Active participation

Course workload

Course workload category	Hours
Preparation	160.00
Colloquium	35.00
Assignments	20.00

Sum	215.00

Content

Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is a growing sub-discipline
within Computer Science, which is based upon certain interdisciplinary
theoretical principles and core topics – this course focus on the core knowledge
and basic insights of the fundamentals of CSCW.

Learning outcome

Detailed and reflective insights of CSCW core topics and disciplines based upon
the classic literature of the field. The course aims at discussing the classics
books within the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) research field,
with a link to the impact of the book by reading related work emerging from
these classics. The learning objective is thus for the PhD students be know and
be able to reflect critically about the CSCW foundations, as well as articulate the
common core frameworks and concepts.

The PhD-course will focus on literature that would be expected as a basic
foundation in a CSCW-graduate program. In this way the PhD-students get an
opportunity to read and discuss the classics that are fundamental for further
reading into the field of CSCW. The course will take the form of a discussion
group led by presentations given by participants. For each time the participants
are expected to read the full book, as well as related papers impacted by the
book.

The classic books concern the topic areas below:

• Infrastructures and classifications (Bowker & Star, 1999)
• Embodied Interaction (Dourish, 2004)
• Categories and coordination (Winograd & Flores, 1987)
• Distributed cognition (Hutchins, 1995)
• Plans and situated actions (Suchman, 2007)

Literature

The course runs approximately once a month for five months and for each time
all attendants will read a core book, prepare presentations on the general
theme, and be able to present and discuss how the particular theme relate to
the PhD students’ own work (Detailed description will be sent out to the
participants).

1. Bowker, G. C., & Star, S. L. (1999). Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its
Consequences. MIT Press.
2. Dourish, P. (2004). Where the Action is. MIT Press.
3. Hutchins, E. (1995). Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press.
4. Suchman, L. (2007). Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated
Actions. Cambridge University Press.
5. Winograd, T., & Flores, F. (1987). Understanding Computers and Cognition:
A New Foundation for Design. Addison-Wesley.

Remarks

Application for attendance, please submit by email:
- A personal CV (max 1 page): Including PhD affiliation, name of
department, and main supervisor.
- A summary of your research experience (10 lines) as well as a description
of how CSCW relates to your research project and how the course will
support your PhD work.

Emails should be sent to Stina Matthiesen matthiesen@di.ku.dk no later than January 29th 2016.

Exam
ECTS credits 7,5

Hours/days, total course, ECTS:

Course: 5 days
Course attendance per day: 7 hours/35 hours, 1,25
Preparation per day: 32 hours/160 hours, 5,72
Exercises: 20 hours, 0,71

ECTS 7,68
ECTS (Round off) 7,50

Guest lecturer: Geoffrey C. Bowker, Professor, Informatics at the University of
California, Irvine, USA

Tentative course dates
Friday February 12th, 2016, 9:30-17:00
Friday March 11th, 2016, 9:30-17:00
Friday April 8th, 2016, 9:30-17:00
Friday May 20th, 2016, 9:30-17:00
Friday June 10th, 2016, 9:30-17:00

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