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The aim of this paper is to report the initiative of a research project called the CSCW Lab. The CSCW Lab is an approach for applying evaluation methodologies in the context of a groupware research group. We identify the major dimensions of groupware evaluation and describe how the CSCW Lab addresses them. The first experiments using CSCW Lab are also described.
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de Araujo, R.M., Santoro, F.M., Borges, M.R.S. (2002). The CSCW Lab for Groupware Evaluation. In: Haake, J.M., Pino, J.A. (eds) Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use. CRIWG 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2440. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46124-8_15
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