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Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces

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Dourish, Paul, Bellotti, Victoria·1992·Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work - CSCW '92

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Awareness of individualand group activities is critical to successful collaboration and is commonly supported in CSCW systems by active, information generation mechanisms separate from the shared workspace.These mechanisms pena~ise information providers, presuppose relevance 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.

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  • Awareness is required for coordinating group activities in any domain.

    “Moreover, awareness is a mandatory requirement for coordinating group activities, independent of the domain [62].”
  • The labour of representational transformations and coordination is a specific type of awareness and coordination work required to maintain shared understanding in the face of representational breakdowns.

    “This labour is a specific type of awareness and coordination work, as defined in the computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) field [25, 34], that is required to maintain a shared understanding in the face of representational breakdowns.”

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  1. [3]3. Paul Dourish and Sara Bly, "Portholes: Supporting Awareness in Distributed Work Groups", Proc. CHI'92 Human Factors in Computer Systems (Monterey. Ca., May 1992),
  2. [16]16. Ilona Posner, "A Study of Collaborative Writing", Unpublished Master's thesis, University of Toronto, 1991.

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Authors
Dourish, P., & Bellotti, V.
Affiliations
Xerox (United Kingdom) (GB)
Venue
Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work - CSCW '92
Publisher
ACM Press
Published
1992
Pages
107-114
OpenAlex
W2032843080
Cited by
2,550
References
17
Citations by year
2026: 51 · 2025: 111 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 55 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 62 · 2020: 60 · 2019: 68 · 2018: 64 · 2017: 73 · 2016: 94 · 2015: 95 · 2014: 84 · 2013: 107 · 2012: 125
FWCI
6.61
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation (8902930)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
Keywords
coworking spaces, awareness, groupware, information generation

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