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Gutwin, C., Roseman, R. and Greenberg, S. (1996)
Workspace Awareness Support With Radar Views. In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System, Companion Proceedings – ACM CHI’96, pages 210-211, April 13-17.
Type: Refereed conference (short paper).
Earlier version in: Report 1995-580-32, December.
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DOI: 10.1145/257089.257286
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Abstract.
Groupware systems that use large shared workspaces generally provide only limited awareness information about other collaborators in the workspace. We are designing a set of groupware widgets to provide this missing information. This paper describes a usability study of a number of such widgets. The study has both validated our intuitions about the need for workspace awareness information, and revealed the strengths and weaknesses of several current designs.
Keywords: Groupware, CSCW, awareness, usability.