The CSCW area focuses on a number of other areas, e.g., awareness, mediated communication, collaborative writing, virtual environments, communities, and workplace studies. The content and planning of the course is done considering the students and the on-going activities at the school. Examples of what is discussed during the course:
- what a so called groupware (a system that supports cooperation, e.g., e-mail or chat-systems) is and different kinds of applications,
- what kinds of groupware that exists to support the process around collaborative writing,
- how we are affected by the medium we communicate through, e.g., differences between communication face-to-face, text based communication and video based communication,
- how cooperation can be supported in virtual environments (CVE),
- different perspectives (sociological and psychological) for understanding cooperation and communication,
- workplace studies and how they exemplify cooperation.
The course includes a laboratory experiment in which a number of tasks are conducted during the first part of the course, and a project task is conducted during the second part of the course. The course also includes a home exam.