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The field of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) focuses
on how groups of people interact using technology. CSCW is
an interdisciplinary field and involves computer scientists,
social scientists, and designers. The people working in this
research area seek both to understand the role of technology
in group systems and to develop new offerings that support
it more effectively. CSCW plays an increasingly significant
role with the advent of IBM's Web and eBusiness applications,
and is particularly important to IBM's Lotus-branded collaboration
offerings such as Domino, Notes, and LearningSpace. CSCW projects
can be found in IBM Research labs around the world. These
projects range from ethnographic studies in diverse work settings
to technological experiments for delivering awareness and
presence across time and space to total cost of ownership
studies of communities.
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