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Gutwin, C. and Roseman, R. (1996)
A Usability Study of Workspace Awareness Widgets. In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System, Companion Proceedings – ACM CHI’06, pages 214-215, April 13-17.
Type: Refereed conference (short paper).
Earlier version: Report 1995-580-32, December.
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DOI: 10.1145/257089.257287
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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.