The multidisciplinary design group in Vienna
This showcase paper describes the research of the Multidisciplinary Design Group, Vienna University of Technology, over the course of more than 20 years. It discusses this research and the contributions to CSCW resulting from it, under four headings: work practices in health care; studies of design practice and development of supporting technologies; coordination work and technologies; and gender studies, identifying the factors that shaped the group's engagement in specific projects and the analytical frameworks they developed in collaboration with international cooperation partners.