on Monday February 17, we have a guest lecturer: Brent Reeves

He will talk about tacit knowledge and will give us more details about the infamous McGuckin study.

Please prepare the following for the class:

1. Critique http://sracog.srainc.com/~brentr/cscw96tk.html

1.1 define tacit knowledge

1.2 how does it affect design of collaborative systems?

2. Critique http://sracog.srainc.com/~brentr/papers/mcguckin.rtf

(Locating the Right Object in a Large Hardware Store: An Empirical Study of Cooperative Problem Solving among Humans Technical Report CU-CS-523-91, University of Colorado Department of Computer Science, Boulder, CO, 1991.)

2.1 define cooperative problem solving

2.2 how are McGuckin and Design Environments related?

and mail me the answers (ascii) by Thursday 5 pm. I will summarize and send back to the whole group.

Whole group should read summary before class Monday.