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Cutting into collaboration: understanding coordination in distributed and interdisciplinary medical research

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work archive
Proceedings of the ACM 2008 conference on Computer supported cooperative work table of contents

San Diego, CA, USA

SESSION: Interdisciplinary and distributed teams table of contents

Pages 427-436

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-007-4

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Saeko Nomura	Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Jeremy Birnholtz	Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Oya Rieger	Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Gilly Leshed	Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Deborah Trumbull	Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Geri Gay	Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Coordinating goals, schedules, and tasks among collaborators is difficult, and made even more so when there are disciplinary, geographic and institutional boundaries that must be spanned. Designing CSCW tools to support coordination in these settings, however, requires an improved under-standing of the constraints and conflicts that impede effective collaboration. We present findings from a study of distributed collaborations between academic surgeons and biomedical engineering researchers. These two groups differ significantly in their work priorities and institutional contexts, but are nonetheless able to work together and co-ordinate effectively. They accomplish this via human mediation, frequent ad hoc communication, and optimizing the use of their limited face-to-face interaction opportunities.

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