Calendars: Time Coordination and Overview in Families and Beyond

Abstract

ECSCW 2013 received 82 competitive paper and note submissions. After extensive review, 15 were selected to form the core of the traditional single-track technical programme for the conference. These are supplemented by exciting workshops and masterclasses that cover a broad range of topics and allow for wider and more active participation. These additional contributions will be published in the Volume 2 Proceedings, together with the expanded selection of demonstrations, videos, and work in progress.Work in progress has been introduced as a new peer reviewed category for ECSCW 2013, and those papers will be included in the Volume 2 Proceedings that will be available online.The technical program this year focuses on work and the enterprise as well as on the challenges of involving citizens, patients, and others into collaborative settings. The papers embrace new theories, and discuss known ones. They challenge the ways we think about and study work and contribute to the discussions of the blurring boundaries between home and work life. They introduce recent and emergent technologies, and study known social and collaborative technologies. Classical settings in computer supported cooperative work are looked upon anew. With contributions from all over the world, the papers in interesting ways help focus on the European perspective in our community.Many people have worked hard to ensure the success of this conference, and we briefly acknowledge them here: all the authors who submitted high quality papers; all those who contributed through taking part in workshops, masterclasses, demonstrations, and the new category of work in progress; the 64 members of a global programme committee, who dedicated time and energy to reviewing and discussing individual contributions and shaping the programme; the people who helped organise the programme: the workshop and masterclass chairs, the chairs of demos and videos, work in progress, student volunteers, and various other practical arrangements. Finally, we acknowledge the student volunteers who provided support throughout the event; and we thank the sponsors and those who offered their support to the conference. Abstract. The title of this paper comes from comments made by an 'angry' ethnographer during a debriefing session. It reflects his frustration with a certain analytic mentality that would have him justify his observations in terms of the number of times he had witnessed certain occurrences in the field. Concomitant to this was a concern with the amount of time he had spent in the field and the implication that the duration of fieldwork somehow justified the things that he had seen; the implication being that the more time he spent immersed in the study setting the more valid his findings and, conversely, the less time, the less valid they were. For his interlocutors, these issues speak to the grounds upon which we might draw general insights and lessons from ethnographic research regarding the social or collaborative organisation of human activities. However, the strong i...

Rethinking technology on the boundaries of life and work

“…Some of the cases also move beyond that and embrace somebody's work and somebody else's life as, e.g. the daily work of municipal care or case workers (5, 7) [13], and on the other the infrequent, yet quite intense use as when families for rather brief but intensive periods of their lives engage with the planning of their parental leave (5) [13,21,23,24].…”

“…Waste-water plant [3,4] 5 Parental leave planning [13,21,23,24] 6 iPhone use [11,15] 7 Local area artwork [17,18,50] 8…”

“…In this paper, I'm largely continuing a tradition of thinking in the CSCW field, where boundaries are looked upon as resources [13,16,28,41,54,55] and where technology plays a role in mediating, dissolving, enforcing, changing, negotiating and maintaining boundaries. The scope is our work and life as a whole and the question is how we may understand and work with technologies in this space?…”

Managing Telehealth and Telecare

“…These studies have to a large degree focused on designing care worker support, rather than patient support. More recently, attention has also been given to non-professional care settings such as patients' private homes [2,[7][8][9][10]. Indeed, as sensor technology becomes smaller, more stable and more economically attractive and infrastructures such as mobile 3G networks becomes ubiquitous available more and more Pervasive health and homebased care scenarios are explored [11].…”

“…Both formal and informal collaboration normally take place between for example family members of a referred older adult and municipality care workers. However, as stated by Bødker and Grönvall, on neither side of the family-municipality collaboration there is a simple and open relationship; families are complicated as are municipal bureaucracies [8]. Indeed, both possibilities and conflicts may arise as professional and informal care providers enter the care receiver's home with different stances, roles and time rhythms to collaborate around the care of a person [55].…”