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The Swedish MultiG program addresses research issues in distributed multimedia workstation applications, including CSCW, and high-speed networks. This report treats some basic CSCW issues in a distributed design environment. We review and analyse relevant literature on system design and computer supported cooperation and discusses the basic issues: What is design? What is collaboration in design? What computer support is necessary for collaboration in a distributed design environment? A task analysis is performed of design and collaboration. Computer support for these tasks in a distributed environment is discussed with emphasis on generic tools for informal collaboration.
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Marmolin, H., Sundblad, Y., Pehrson, B. (1991). An analysis of Design and Collaboration in a Distributed Environment. In: Bannon, L., Robinson, M., Schmidt, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work ECSCW ’91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3506-1_11
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