CSCW research in Germany

Abstract

This article presents the main goals and intentions of some of the recently started research projects within the German CSCW-community 1 . It does not intend to present established results of (more or less) finished projects. All members of the German special interest group "CSCW in Organizations" were asked to submit a short description of their most recent research work. Since most projects are still in their early stage commonly available literature may not exist so far for some projects.The main intentions of this article are on the one hand to give an impression of the current state-of-the-art and interests of German CSCW research groups and on the other hand to stimulate international discussions and cooperations between researchers. Most of the presented projects are still in their starting phase. Therefore, I am pretty sure that the researchers whose work is described in this article are happy about every fruitful comment or constructive critics or any offer for cooperation if other researchers think that the presented work does nicely fit into or extend their work.For further information please contact the respective author directly or visit the appropriate WWW pages. An introduction the special interest group can be found here: http://www.informatik.uniessen.de/Fachgebiete/DatWiss/FG551/Introduction