| Keywords: Handheld Computing, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Co-Located Cooperation, Environment-Mediated Collaboration Author(s): Albrecht Schmidt, Markus Lauff and Michael Beigl In this paper we explore and demonstrate possible contribution of handheld computing
in the field of computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). Based on a survey of the CSCW-
conference series we discovered that most research is concentrated on support of distributed col-
laboration. Based on a definition for handheld computing and an extensive description of new op-
tions provided by handheld devices we suggest new application domains in CSCW.
In the second part we discuss two of these domains, namely the support for co-located cooperating
humans and for environment-mediated collaborative work, in more depth. In the first context we
present a heterogeneous infrared communication application for meeting support. In the second we
present a framework and experiments that concentrate on the question how location can be ex-
ploited for CSCW.
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