In 1984 Irene Greifand Paul Cashman invited to an interdis- ciplinary workshop on “Computer-Supported Cooperative Work”.1 Some of the topics presented at this workshop or published soon after were: – Coordination Technology (Holt) – The Coordinator (Flores, Winograd) – First studies on “work practice” (Suchman) – Workflow management systems (“Domino” – Kreifelts) – New approaches to office automation (“Gameru” – De Cindio, De Michelis, Simone) Upon examining these papers and their research objec- tives, and reflecting on recent years, we can observe that Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has been one of the research fields instrumental in enabling a swift transition to hybrid communication, interaction, and collab- oration. Theway we work, the waywe connect with friends, and the way we engage in society are increasingly inter- twined with concepts that have been at the core of CSCW research since “day one”. Recent emerging topics are foster- ing hybrid cooperation while also integrating its concepts and tools into new collaboration scenarios and broader social life. Given that most applications today are not 1 See https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4097 for a detailed doc- umentation of this workshop. *Corresponding author: Michael Koch, Computer Science Department, Universität der Bundeswehr München, München, Germany, E-mail: michael.koch@unibw.de. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9694-6946 Alexander Richter, Wellington School of Business and Government, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, E-mail: alex.richter@vuw.ac.nz. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3699-6466 Michael Prilla, Interactive Systems, Department for Human Centered Computing and Cognitive Science, Faculty for Computer Science, Univer- sity of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany, E-mail: michael.prilla@uni-due.de. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6095- 6114 limited to single-user experiences but involve communica- tion and collaboration among individuals, CSCW is relevant in various emerging themes. This is particularly prominent in theMetaverse, aswell as in areas like AI-powered conver- sational agents. In this extended editorial for the i-com Special Issue on the past, present and future of Computer-Supported Col- laborative Work, we try to briefly summarize some issues about the past and present of CSCW and reflect on its role and relevance in a broader scientific discourse that tends to reinvent topics and concept that have been explored in CSCW since a long time (e.g. in human-AI interaction). In this encounter, we focus on a European perspective on CSCW – since the authors all come from Europe and have been raised in the European CSCW community. Also see the interviews about “The European Tradition of CSCW” with Volker Wulf and Myriam Lewkowicz published in Richter and    «

In 1984 Irene Greifand Paul Cashman invited to an interdis- ciplinary workshop on “Computer-Supported Cooperative Work”.1 Some of the topics presented at this workshop or published soon after were: – Coordination Technology (Holt) – The Coordinator (Flores, Winograd) – First studies on “work practice” (Suchman) – Workflow management systems (“Domino” – Kreifelts) – New approaches to office automation (“Gameru” – De Cindio, De Michelis, Simone) Upon examining these papers and their research obj...    »