Fairness in the division and completion of collaborative work

Abstract

Fairness is often a concern when groups of people engage in collaborative tasks. Through the use of simple bargaining experiments, my PhD examines preferences for fairness during the allocation and completion of work. One goal of my work is to assess the applicability of existing theories about fairness to the context of CSCW. Overall, though, I aim to provoke discussion about how fairness preferences might be supported in the design of collaborative work tools. Copyright © 2012 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).