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Dimensions of cooperative work

Over the years, CSCW researchers have identified a number of core dimensions of cooperative work. A non-exhaustive list includes:

Awareness: individuals working together need to be able to gain some level of shared knowledge about each other's activities.

Articulation work: cooperating individuals must somehow be able to partition work into units, divide it amongst themselves and, after the work is performed, reintegrate it.

Appropriation (or tailorability): how an individual or group adapts a technology to their own particular situation

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