5 Article Reviews 2 Pages long totalling 10 pages.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING ASSIGNMENT #1: Article Reviews
Assignment #1: Article Reviews, Due on or before Sunday, February 12, 2017
Associated Learning Objectives: Develop skills in identifying, evaluating, and synthesizing
scholarly literature effectively. Examine theories, definitions, concepts, and issues related to
CSCW. Communicate IS concepts, designs, and solutions effectively and professionally in
online discussions and in papers.
Article Review Guidelines
A total of five (5) article reviews are required for this assignment.
Select and review two (2) articles from the Detailed Course Schedule. The required article
readings are important to your process to learn about essential issues related to the theory and
practice of computer-supported cooperative work and to assist in the discussion of article
readings in asynchronous discussions in Blackboard. While you are required to read all of the
articles in the schedule, you will select and review two of them for this part of Assignment #1.
Articles from Detailed Course Schedule Select 2 from here
• Grudin, J. (1994, January). Groupware and social dynamics: Eight challenges for
developers. Communications of the ACM, 37(1), 93-105.
• Bjorn, P., Esbensen, M., Jensen, R. E., & Matthiesen, S. (2014). Does distance still matter?
Revisiting the CSCW fundamentals on distributed collaboration. ACM Transactions on
Computer-Human Interaction, 27(5), 27, 1-26.
• Johnson, D. (2013). Mobile support in CSCW applications and groupware development
frameworks. International Journal of Information Management (iJIM), 7(2), 54-62,
http://www.i-jim.org.
• Eschler, J., Kendall, L., O'Leary, K. O., Vizer, L. M., Lozano, P., McClure, J. B., Pratt, W.,
& Ralston, J. D. (2015). Shared calendars for home health management. Proceedings of the
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '15),
March 14-18, 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada: ACM, 1277-1288.
• Birnholtz, B., & Ibara, S. (2012). Tracking changes in collaborative writing: Edits,
visibility, and group maintenance. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported
Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '12), February 11-15, 2012, Seattle, WA,
USA: ACM, 809-818.
• Pinelle, D., & Gutwin, C. (2015). The effects of view portals on performance and
awareness in co-located tabletop groupware. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer
Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '15), March 14-18, 2015,
Vancouver, BC, Canada: ACM, 195-206.
• Siebdrat, F., Hoegl, M., & Ernst, H. (2009). How to manage virtual teams. MIT Sloan
Management Review, 50(4), 63-68.
• Bos, N., Olson, J., Gergle, D., Olson, G., & Wright, Z. (2002). Effects of four computermediated
communications channels on trust development. Proceedings of the SIGCHI
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’02), April 20-25, 2002,
Minneapolis, MN, ACM Press, 135-140.
• Chidambaram, L., & Tung, L. L. (2005). Is out of sight, out of mind? An empirical study
of social loafing in technology-supported groups. Information Systems Research (ISR),
16(2), 149-168.
• Koehne, B., Shih, P. C., & Olson, J. S. (2012). Remote and alone: Coping with being the
remote member on the team. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported
Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '12), February 11-15, 2012, Seattle, WA,
USA: ACM, 1257-1266.
• Alschuller, S., & Benbunan-Fich, R. (2010). Trust, performance, and the communication
process in ad hoc decision-making virtual teams. Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication, 16, 27-47.
Search, select, and review three (3) journal articles related to CSCW. (Articles can be searched
and selected from the list of Acceptable Journals and Conference Proceedings List for Use in
Assignments.) The types of articles you need to select for the reviews can ultimately be used
for Assignment #2, when you synthesize literature in your paper to support your
discussions. So consider carefully articles you select for this part of the assignment. Articles
for this part of Assignment #1 should be current (2014 to present).
The entire assignment is worth a possible total of 65 points. Each article review from the
required readings list is worth a possible total of 10 points (for a possible total of 20 points for
this part of the assignment. Each article review from the search and select part of the assignment
is worth a possible total of 15 points (for a possible total of 45 points for this part of the
assignment). All article reviews will be graded and points awarded by their relevance to the
course, their technical and/or educational/industry orientation, a clear statement of the problem,
depth of review, recommendations for future research, presentation quality, and APA 6th
accuracy.
Article Reviews Content Requirements
Each article review should be no more than two pages in length (double-spaced). Each article
review should contain the following:
Provide a full citation of the article. (Author, year, article title, journal name, volume number,
issue number, page numbers.) Be sure this is in correct APA format! Present the full citation first
at the top of the page. (Start a new page for each review.)
Describe the problem presented in the article in your own words.
Summarize the article, describe the study and identify the major issues and conclusions.
Describe potential topics for future research based on the recommendations from the article.
Describe your reactions. State whether you agree or disagree with the author(s) findings and/or
conclusions, and explain why. Make sure you write your entire paper in third person narrative, (I,
me, we, our, us should not be used in the narrative.)
Provide a list of references (Reference List) at the end of each article that are of interest to you
and that you may want to read to gain better perspective on the ideas presented in the article.
(These sources are normally generated from the Reference List of the article you are reviewing,
although they also may be attained through your own literature search.)
Note: Please be sure that all 5 article reviews are contained in ONE file to be submitted
through Blackboard!
End of Assignment #1 Instructions
Acceptable Journals and Conference Proceedings List for Use in Assignments
Only high-level articles are acceptable for the assignments, so be sure that you choose your
articles from only this list of sources:
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (AIS)
AIS Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Communications of the ACM (CACM)
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW, the journal) (Springer)
Computers & Education (Elsevier)
Computers in Human Behavior (Elsevier)
IEEE Computer or other peer reviewed IEEE journals and conference proceedings
Information Systems Research (ISR) (INFORMS)
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Elsevier)
International Journal of Information Management (IJIM)
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Proceedings of the Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T'11)
Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social
Computing (CSCW)
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM
SIGCHI)
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Proceedings of the ACM SIGGROUP International Conference on Supporting Group Work
(ACM GROUP)
Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)