Download or read book Designing Collaborative Systems written by Andy Crabtree and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable introduction to the new ‘ethnographic’ approach to designing effective and user friendly collaborative and interactive systems. Here, designers are shown how to analyse the social circumstances in which a particular system will be used. Consisting of four sections the book covers: the requirements problem; how to describe and analyse cooperative work; the design process; and how to evaluate systems supporting cooperative work. Practical examples are provided throughout, based on the development case of a collaborative library database system.