Summary: ECSCW has been instrumental in defining the agenda of CSCW research since
the beginning, and it still is. It has been the key forum for identifying and
exploring issues such as
the situated nature of action and interaction and its implications;
the role of ethnography in CSCW and in computing in general,
the role and nature of 'awareness' in cooperative work;
the role of paper-based and other material artifacts in cooperative work;
highly flexible collaboration infrastructures and tailorable systems.
