Empirical research in CSCW — a review of the ACM/CSCW conferences from 1998 to 2004

Abstract

This paper reviews all the 169 full papers published in the ACM/CSCW conferences from 1998 to 2004. We classify the papers according to the type of empirical research they report. The classes are evaluation of groupware, description of work situations, hypothesis testing, bibliographic research, and papers with no empirical research. We show that the field is in constant change, that the proportions of papers in these different categories have been changing in these 6 years, and that for the evaluation papers, the results by Pinelle and Gutwin do not carry for the 1998–2004 period