Second International Workshop on Analyzing
Collaborative Activity

 CSAPC 03 Workshop – 19 September, 2003  Amsterdam

Cognition and Collaboration - Distributed Cognition in 
    Complex Processes

This workshop was the second in a series of research discussions. The first workshop, Analyzing Collaborative Activity, was held at CSCW 2002 and focused on analyzing collaborative work and representation of collaboration in the context of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work technologies. Both workshops relate the use of multi-method and multi-theory approaches from field research and ethnographic studies of collaborative process. Contributions range from empirical questions of field research to theoretical integration. The “middle ground” of inquiry has been developed, with field researchers inquiring into design issues, designers considering  theory, and theoretical investigators looking at applications.

Following the more general findings of the first workshop, the second workshop aimed at a more specific target, developing the conceptual framework of Distributed Cognition for analyzing and understanding collaborative work.

Workshop Report	Workshop Presentation to CSAPC

Workshop Position Papers

Federico Vidari
INDACO, Politecnico di Milano
Milano, Italy
 

Extended Cognition: Intelligence happening beyond the individual

Distributed information seeking in research collaboration:
An extended economy of resources, memory and cognition

Paul van Fenema
Erasmus University,
The Netherlands

Presentation (PPT)

Cristina Chisalita and
Mari Carmen Puerto Melguizo
Department of Software Engineering, Vrije University, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Distributed Cognition: a case of multiple complex organizations