'Safety in numbers': calculation and document re-use in knowledge work

Harper, Richard, Proctor, Robert, Randall, David and Rouncefield, Mark (2001) 'Safety in numbers': calculation and document re-use in knowledge work. In: GROUP01: Conference on Supporting GROUP Work, 30th September 2001-3rd October 2001, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

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Official URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/500286.500322

Abstract

This paper presents detailed examples of document use and re-use, through an ethnographic study of the knowledge work associated with road safety audit in a civil engineering consultancy The paper incorporates some detailed observation of practices, conversations, and other activities occurring around document re-use in everyday work. It outlines some aspects of the everyday use and re-use of engineering documents in the practical accomplishment of everyday knowledge work as the first stage in considering how these activities can be technologically supported.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Published Proceedings:	GROUP '01: Proceedings of the 2001 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
Peer-reviewed:	No
Date Deposited:	14 Feb 2007 16:16
Publisher:	ACM Press
Additional Information:	This paper was originally presented at ACM 2001 International Conference on Supporting Group Work, Boulder, Colorado, 1-3 October 2001.
Divisions:	Faculties > Arts and Humanities
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/8412
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1145/500286.500322

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