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Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces (1992)
| Venue: | Proc. of the Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW´92 |
| Citations: | 810 - 14 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Dourish92awarenessand,
author = {Paul Dourish and Victoria Bellotti},
title = {Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces},
booktitle = {Proc. of the Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW´92},
year = {1992},
pages = {107--114}
}
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Abstract
Awareness of individual and group activities is critical to successful collaboration and is commonly supported in CSCW systems by active, information generation mecha-nisms separate from the shared workspace. These mechanisms pena~ise information providers, presuppose rel-evance to the recipient, and make access difficult, We discuss a study of shared editor use which suggests that awareness information provided and exploited passively through the shared workspace, allows users to move smoothly between close and loose collaboration, and to assign and coordinate work dynamically. Passive awareness mechanisms promise effective support for collaboration requiring this sort of behaviour, whilst avoiding problems with active approaches.
