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On a Mission without a Home Base: Conceptualizing Nomadicity in Student Group Work

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2006

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COOP 2006: Cooperative Systems Design - Seamless Integration of Artifacts and Conversations - Enhanced Concepts of Infrastructure for Communication

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IOS Press

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We are observing that the current body of CSCW research is focusing either on stable workplaces with a single cooperative unit or on mobile work, with highly mobile professionals. We are attempting to fill the gap between workplace and mobile with a field study of student work, which we regard as exhibiting a high degree of nomadicity. After comparing student work with centres of coordination and mobility work, we unpack the notion of nomadicity as a work condition, constituted by a complex of discontinuities, leading to work partitioning and re-assembly. We draw design and methodological implications.

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Bogdan, Cristian; Rossitto, Chiara; Normark, Maria; Jorge, Pedro "Adler"; Eklundh, Kerstin Severinson (2006): On a Mission without a Home Base: Conceptualizing Nomadicity in Student Group Work. COOP 2006: Cooperative Systems Design - Seamless Integration of Artifacts and Conversations - Enhanced Concepts of Infrastructure for Communication. IOS Press. ISBN: 978-1-58603-604-1. pp. 23-38. Carry-le-Rouet, France. 9-12 May 2006

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COOP 2006: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Designing Cooperative Systems