Calendars: Time coordination and overview in families and beyond

TY - GEN

T1 - Calendars

T2 - European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

AU - Bødker, Susanne

AU - Grönvall, Erik

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - This paper discusses how calendars and time coordination can be used across social and organizational borders, bridging between work and non-work, and between family coordination and external collaborators. The paper moves beyond family on-line calendars towards coordination and collaboration with professional caregivers and public authorities, and discusses how such shared calendars revitalize some of the very basic discussions of CSCW: The notion of shared goals in cooperative activities, the understanding of time and time-granularity in cooperation, common information spaces, and in particular boundary-crossing capacities and the holding back of information for fragmented exchange. Based on two cases, in which we have worked with sharing and coordination of time-resources in families on the one hand, and external parties such as external caregivers, employers and municipal authorities on the other, this paper will reopen these old CSCW debates. This paper questions if calendars, in particular family calendars should be designed based on shared goals and common interests. We argue that collaboration needs to be supported, even when families and their professional and amateur collaborators do not share the same goals, rhythms and routines

AB - This paper discusses how calendars and time coordination can be used across social and organizational borders, bridging between work and non-work, and between family coordination and external collaborators. The paper moves beyond family on-line calendars towards coordination and collaboration with professional caregivers and public authorities, and discusses how such shared calendars revitalize some of the very basic discussions of CSCW: The notion of shared goals in cooperative activities, the understanding of time and time-granularity in cooperation, common information spaces, and in particular boundary-crossing capacities and the holding back of information for fragmented exchange. Based on two cases, in which we have worked with sharing and coordination of time-resources in families on the one hand, and external parties such as external caregivers, employers and municipal authorities on the other, this paper will reopen these old CSCW debates. This paper questions if calendars, in particular family calendars should be designed based on shared goals and common interests. We argue that collaboration needs to be supported, even when families and their professional and amateur collaborators do not share the same goals, rhythms and routines

U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7_4

DO - 10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7_4

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4471-5345-0

SP - 63

EP - 81

BT - ECSCW 2013

A2 - Bertelsen, Olav W.

A2 - Ciolfi, Luigina

A2 - Grasso, Maria Antonietta

A2 - Papadopoulos, George Angelos

PB - Springer VS

Y2 - 21 September 2013 through 25 September 2013

ER -