NDLI: ALCHEMIST: support for emergent models of work practices in collaborative systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Jones, P.M. Kaplan, S.M. Sanderson, P.M. Star, S.L.
Copyright Year	1994
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Mech. & Ind. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA (Jones, P.M.)
Abstract	The study of work practices engaged in by human members of complex sociotechnical systems and the development of tools and environments to support those workers can be facilitated by common methodological and technological infrastructure. The goal of the ALCHEMIST project is to develop an integrated computer-based environment that embodies this approach and that rests upon a diverse theoretical foundation that blends grounded, cognitive, and coordination theories into a framework for pervasively intelligent, collaborative, and adaptive support. Thus, ALCHEMIST is intended to support ethnographic work upon field data (transcripts, videotapes, etc.) and provide tools for researchers to articulate relevant constructs for data analysis and requirements generation for end-user applications. Furthermore, these applications themselves are developed from and are instances or ALCHEMIST. The "conceptual primitives" embodied in ALCHEMIST thus provide the basis for models of work practices; and the nature of these models emerges from the analysis and development process. This paper describes the theoretical underpinnings of ALCHEMIST, the ALCHEMIST architecture, and a domain of work practices currently under investigation.
Starting Page	373
Ending Page	378
File Size	644243
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780321294
DOI	10.1109/ICSMC.1994.399867
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1994-10-02
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Collaborative work Data analysis Collaborative tools Computer science Computer architecture Design engineering Knowledge engineering Industrial engineering Sociology Humans
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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