IS THERE A ROLE FOR PHILOSOPHY IN GROUP WORK SUPPORT?

Roger Tagg

2008

Abstract

There appears to be evidence that much potential IT support for group work is yet to be widely adopted or to achieve significant benefits. It has been suggested that, in order to achieve better results when applying IT to group work, designers should take more notice of modern philosophies that avoid the so-called "Cartesian Dualism" of mind separated from matter. It is clear that group work support is more than a matter of automating formal procedures. This paper reviews the question from the author’s lifetime of experience as a consultant, academic and group worker; proposes some models to address some of the missing perspectives in current approaches; and suggests how future efforts could be re-orientated to achieve better outcomes.

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Tagg R. (2008). IS THERE A ROLE FOR PHILOSOPHY IN GROUP WORK SUPPORT? . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 89-96. DOI: 10.5220/0001677200890096


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@conference{iceis08,
author={Roger Tagg},
title={IS THERE A ROLE FOR PHILOSOPHY IN GROUP WORK SUPPORT?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={89-96},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001677200890096},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,
TI - IS THERE A ROLE FOR PHILOSOPHY IN GROUP WORK SUPPORT?
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Tagg R.
PY - 2008
SP - 89
EP - 96
DO - 10.5220/0001677200890096