Collaborative Analogue Document Use

: Paper as a means of communication has never been superseded by the almost ubiquitous electronic media of the workplace. An interview and observational study investigates the use of paper in communication. Speculations are made on how CSCW systems can incorporate these results to facilitate communication and collaboration. 1 Introduction Full computerisation of the office system has failed as evident in the huge quantities of paper generated by office workers. The rationale of moving to the electronic medium is that computerised data can be manipulated more efficiently than paper based information, with the possibility of increased functionality. eInfo can be sorted efficiently, communicated at the press of a button, revised without obscuring text, state transformed (e.g. from plain text to a database); it has a low storage volume, can hold auto-generated data on document creation (authors, date modified, etc.) and so on. But, despite these advantages, we have not achieved the paperl..