Intelligibilité mutuelle et contexte partagé

• Main Authors: Pascal Salembier, Moustapha Zouinar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association Recherche et Pratique sur les Activités 2004-10-01
• Series: Activités
• Subjects: cooperation; situated action and cognition; accountability; shared context; design
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/activites/1243

Historically, theoretical frameworks that are used in order to provide a conceptual base to the computer-supported cooperative work refer mainly to the “situated action” approach, and consequently to one of its main sources of inspiration: ethnomethodology. Taking this orientation seriously requires going beyond simply using ethnographically oriented field studies, and to identify precisely the specific notions which structure this disciplinary field. In this paper, we stress the influence of the notion of “accountability” in the works undertaken on cooperation and its technical support. In contrast, we present an alternative approach based on the notion of “shared context” which draws upon some of the orientations that can be found in “accountability”, but which exhibits some major differences.