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Tee, K., Greenberg, S., McEwan, G. and Gutwin, C. (2006)
Sharing Desktops with the Community Bar. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work – ACM CSCW 2006, ACM Press, November.
Type: Refereed conference (short paper / demonstration).
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Abstract.
The Shared Desktop Media Item is an awareness tool that uses screen sharing to provide a distributed group with mutual awareness of artifacts and individual work. People see others’ screens in miniature at the edge of their display, can selectively raise a larger view of that screen to get more detail, and can engage in remote pointing if desired. Members of a distributed group can stay aware of what others are doing, monitor progress and coordinate joint tasks, determine when another person can be interrupted, and engage in serendipitous conversation and collaboration. Along with other media items in the Community Bar, groups can now maintain not only awareness of others’ presence, but of their artifacts as well.
Keywords: Screen sharing, artifact awareness, distributed groupware.