At CHI'86 it was a general impression that the area of several people working together using computers was starting to become the next hot topic as a research area. At the same time the European Community is considering changing the focus of the human factors part of the next ESPRIT research program from the so-called human factors-1 (interaction between a single human and a single computer) to human factors-2 (interaction between several humans and several computers).
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