Journal Article

Practices of Stigmergy in the Building Process

Thumbnail Image

Fulltext URI

Document type

Text/Journal Article

Additional Information

Date

2014, 2014

Authors

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Source

Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 23, No. 1

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

Actors coordinate their cooperative efforts by acting on the evidence of work previously accomplished. Based on a field study this article introduces the concept of stigmergy to the analysis of coordinative practices in the building process. It distinguishes between practices of stigmergy, articulation work and awareness practices. Stigmergy is understood as coordination achieved by acting directly on the evidence of work previously accomplished by others. The article provides descriptions of stigmergy in the building process i.e. in design as well as construction work. It seeks to (1) introduce the concept of stigmergy to CSCW, (2) to delimit this concept in regard to other concepts of coordination such as articulation work and awareness and (3) to provide descriptions of practices of stigmergy in the building process and, in this capacity, to help explain how complex large-scale cooperative work is coordinated.

Description

Christensen, Lars Rune (2014): Practices of Stigmergy in the Building Process. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 23, No. 1. DOI: 10.1007/s10606-012-9181-3. Springer. PISSN: 1573-7551. pp. 1-19

Keywords

articulation work, awareness, building process, coordination, stigmergy

Citation

DOI

10.1007/s10606-012-9181-3

URI

URI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-012-9181-3
 https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3874

Collections

JCSCW Vol. 23 (2014)

Endorsement

Review

Supplemented By

Referenced By

Number of citations to item: 16

  • Amira Rezgui, Kevin Crowston (2018): Stigmergic Coordination in Wikipedia, In: Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, doi:10.1145/3233391.3233543
  • Lars Rune Christensen, Hasib Ahsan, Eshrat Akand (2018): Krishi Kontho, In: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, doi:10.1145/3240167.3240225
  • Lei (Nico) Zheng, Feng Mai, Bei Yan, Jeffrey V. Nickerson (2023): Stigmergy in Open Collaboration: An Empirical Investigation Based on Wikipedia, In: Journal of Management Information Systems 3(40), doi:10.1080/07421222.2023.2229119
  • Leticia S. Machado, Ricardo Rodrigo M. Melo, Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Rafael Prikladnicki (2021): Collaborative Behavior and Winning Challenges in Competitive Software Crowdsourcing, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction GROUP(5), doi:10.1145/3463932
  • EunJeong Cheon, Norman Makoto Su (2018): 'Staged for Living', In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction CSCW(2), doi:10.1145/3274305
  • Kevin Crowston, Jeff S. Saltz, Amira Rezgui, Yatish Hegde, Sangseok You (2019): Socio-technical Affordances for Stigmergic Coordination Implemented in MIDST, a Tool for Data-Science Teams, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction CSCW(3), doi:10.1145/3359219
  • Sami Paavola, Reijo Miettinen (2018): Dynamics of Design Collaboration: BIM Models as Intermediary Digital Objects, In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 1-2(28), doi:10.1007/s10606-018-9306-4
  • Ergo Pikas, Bárbara Pedó, Algan Tezel, Lauri Koskela, Markus Veersoo (2022): Digital Last Planner System Whiteboard for Enabling Remote Collaborative Design Process Planning and Control, In: Sustainability 19(14), doi:10.3390/su141912030
  • Lars Rune Christensen (2015): Intertext: On Connecting Text in the Building Process, In: ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19-23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20499-4_6
  • Kjeld Schmidt (2024): ‘The Discipline of Steel’: Technical Knowledge in the Coordinative Practices of Steelmaking, In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 4(33), doi:10.1007/s10606-024-09488-9
  • Sumin Lee, Joon Sang Baek (2019): Nature-Inspired Design for Self-Organized Social Systems: A Tool for Collaborative Communities, In: Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design 1(1), doi:10.1017/dsi.2019.22
  • Naja L. Holten Møller, Pernille Bjørn (2016): In Due Time: Decision-Making in Architectural Design of Hospitals, In: COOP 2016: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 23-27 May 2016, Trento, Italy, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33464-6_12
  • Jannik Friberg Lindegaard, Lars Rune Christensen (2018): Allusive machines, In: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, doi:10.1145/3240167.3240189
  • Heap-Yih Chong, Jun Wang, Wenchi Shou, Xiangyu Wang, Jun Guo (2014): Improving Quality and Performance of Facility Management Using Building Information Modelling, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10831-5_6
  • Kevin Crowston, Jeffery Saltz, Niraj Sitaula, Yatish Hegde (2021): Evaluating MIDST, A System to Support Stigmergic Team Coordination, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction CSCW1(5), doi:10.1145/3449110
  • Federico Cabitza, Carla Simone (2015): Building Socially Embedded Technologies: Implications About Design, In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-6720-4_11
Please note: Providing information about citations is only possible thanks to to the open metadata APIs provided by crossref.org and opencitations.net. These lists may be incomplete due to unavailable citation data.source: opencitations.net, crossref.org