Building CSCW-Systems for Electronic Communities:Supporting Task-oriented Work

CSCW tools are the point where the amalgamation of thefour concepts mentioned in the workshop call take place.From a more prospective than analytical perspective wediscuss possible future community tools. In this positionpaper we describe some thoughts on what kind of workmay be done in communities and what the specialchallenges are for the design of appropriate CSCWsystems supporting this work. We focus on "task-oriented"work and discuss what the exact differences between"classical" settings in CSCW research and a communityorientedresearch may be.[...]