Category: CSCW
Commentary2: Reprinted in Greif, 1988. An earlier version
        appeared in CSCW '86.
Abstract: This paper introduces a perspective based on
        language as action, and explores its consequences
        for practical system design. The language/action
        perspective is contrasted to a number of other
        currently prominent perspectives, andis illustrated
        with an extended example based on studies of nursing
        work in a hospital ward. The author shows how it
        leads to particular analyses of that work, which
        reveal potentails for creating new designs that can
        make the work (and the workers) more effective.
Number: 1
Bibtype: Article
Booktitle: Human Computer Interaction
Author: T. Winograd
Pages: 3-30
Title: A language/action perspective on the design of
        cooperative work
Note: protocols, semi-structured messages
Year: 1988
Volume: 3