ABSTRACT
A variety of tasks and problems become apparent when investigating a broad interdisciplinary field such as coordination theory and collaboration technology. Among them is the problem of characterizing the field in some way. Because our work, and the work reported in this book as a whole, emerged from a program in computer and information science and engineering, we can begin by characterizing computational tools for supporting coordination. A simple characterization of tools for supporting human collaboration has been seen in the computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) literature, where different tools are identified with different time and place 1 characteristics (Johansen, 1988). The result is a lattice as in Fig. 3.1, where we have placed representative entries in each of the matrix elements (many other entries can and have been made in the literature). https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781410605863/2ea7caea-399b-4f22-be82-a320774f52f6/content/fig3_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
