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Title

What are you looking at? Newest findings from an empirical study of group awareness

Author(s)

Tran, Minh Hong;  Raikundalia, Gitesh K.;  Yang, Yun

Abstract

Real-time, distributed, collaborative writing systems are useful tools allowing a group of distributed authors to work on a document simultaneously. A very important factor in achieving effective and efficient collaborative writing is the incorporation of group awareness (GA). GA conveniently provides comprehensive knowledge about the status of a document and activities other authors perform upon the document. However, far more work needs to be carried out in determining exactly what awareness elements (awareness information, such as where users are viewing within a document versus where they are working on a document) are required in collaborative writing. This involves empirically determining which elements are more important than others for support. The authors report results and findings of an empirical, laboratory-based study of GA elements. These findings are completely novel since no other empirical study of GA elements has been done. The findings guide designers in developing relevant mechanisms supporting GA.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Internet Computing and E-Commerce

Source

Lecture notes in computer science: proceedings of the 6th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (APCHI 2004), Rotorua, New Zealand, 29 June-02 July 2004, Vol. 3101, pp. 491-500

Publication year

2004

FOR Code(s)

1203 Design Practice and Management

Publisher

Springer

ISSN

0302-9743 (series ISSN)

ISBN

9783540277958

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27795-8_49

Copyright

Copyright © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004. The accepted manuscript of the paper is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive version of the publication is available at www.springer.com.

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