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Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings

By Mark Stefik, Gregg Foster, Daniel G. Bobrow, Kenneth Kahn, Stan Lanning, Lucy Suchman
Communications of the ACM, January 1987, Vol. 30 No. 1, Pages 32-47
10.1145/7885.7887
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Although individual use of computers is fairly widespread, in meetings we tend to leave them behind. At Xerox PARC, an experimental meeting room called the Colab has been created to study computer support of collaborative problem solving in face-to-face meetings. The long-term goal is to understand how to build computer tools to make meetings more effective.

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