LES OUTILS INFORMATIQUES SUPPORTS AU TRAVAIL
COMPUTER TOOLS MEDIA WORK

Summary/Abstract: The computer science has been historically considered as a set of tools dealing with the automation of basic and repetitive management, computing and manufacturing supervision tasks. The main distinction between computer science tools and the other ones involved in the work environments was the fact that the computer science tools are information and no material processing ones. So, the computer science has been used to build automatic tools dealing with bill management, payroll, etc. Since the apparition and the generalization use of both personal computing devices (personal computers, smartphones, etc.) and networking technologies mainly represented by the Internet, the computer science tools evolved to also deal with the interaction between the various organization actors. Nowadays, many technologies and tools have been developed in order to manage the interaction and the collaboration of the actors accomplishing tasks composing more complex management activities. Such tools are generally called groupware and belong to the computer science area named Computer Supported Collaborative Work. It is also possible to automatically extract performance measures that make it easy to identify process bottlenecks. This is implemented by new computing environments based on the concept of the Business Process Management or BPM. In this paper we briefly make a review of the computer science as a working tool. We show then the new computer science tools supporting the collaborative work and actors interactions. We draw some important questions that the law actors should address in the context of the tripartite relationship between humans, organizations and the automated data processing generally called computer science.

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