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Moving Healthcare to the Home: The Work to Make Homecare Work

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ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus

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The paper discusses the work of care recipients, informal caregivers, and the larger networks that are involved in homecare work. It discusses different kinds of work, and also if all the tasks involved in homecare could and should be labeled work. Finally, the paper looks into what kinds of work is delegated to machines and how this affects the work performed by people. One of the main conclusions from this analysis is that seeing the many different kinds of work that go into making homecare work is a good basis for designing alternative solutions.

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  1. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Tone Bratteteig & Ina Wagner

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  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, University Avenue 1, Aglantzia, Nicosia, 2109, Cyprus

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Bratteteig, T., Wagner, I. (2013). Moving Healthcare to the Home: The Work to Make Homecare Work. In: Bertelsen, O., Ciolfi, L., Grasso, M., Papadopoulos, G. (eds) ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7_8

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