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  • On EUSSET Summer School 2021 – The reason of why we are here again

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    Nico Vitt
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    Following the tradition of many colleagues in the past I applied for the Fifth International Summer School on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in Como on my journey to a PhD. Filled with the knowledge of several icons of CSCW, including Dave Randall, Kjeld Schmidt, Ina Wagner, Nina Boulus-Rødje, Claus Bossen, Carla Simone, Antonella de…

  • Digitalization and Personal Health Data – InfraHealth 2021

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    Gerolf Nauwerck
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    How do infrastructures in healthcare play a role in the transformative process of digitalization? What are the critical perspectives on the evolution and utilization of digital infrastructures for personal health data and how digitalization practices emerged during the pandemic? These were some of the key themes of the InfraHealth 2021, the 8th international conference on…

  • Didactic Prototypes

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    Katka Černá
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    How can prototyping support learning? In this third post from a series about the ACCESS project and how we went online with older adults during a pandemic I will present the topic of didactic prototypes. There are two different types of learning taking place during participatory design processes. First, there is mutual learning, which is…

  • Platform-Supported Cooperative Work

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    Babak Farshchian
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    How do platforms affect cooperation in traditional institutions such as healthcare, education, banking, public services etc.? Studying gig platforms like Uber, Upwork, and Amazon Mechanical Turk is quite popular among CSCW researchers. These platforms create new conditions for cooperation. But what does this platform model mean for cooperative work beyond the gig platforms? Our workshop at ECSCW 2021…

  • Gender and Uncertainties – glimpses from the Summer School 2021

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    eusset
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    The Fifth International Summer School on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) held in Como, Italy gave us an opportunity to deepen our understanding of CSCW as a research field. The experienced scholars of CSCW focused on building the understanding of collaborative work practices and the design of artefacts supporting collaboration that have become pervasive in…

  • The Challenge of Digital Ecologies

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    Katka Černá
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    How can the concept of digital ecologies help us understand the challenges faced by older adults going online? In this second post from a series about the ACCESS project and how we went online with older adults during a pandemic, I will present the problem of digital ecologies. Or rather, digital ecologies are not a…