How a structured document model can support awareness in collaborative authoring

  • Authors:
  • Stavroula Papadopoulou;Moira C. Norrie

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Switzerland;Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • COLCOM '07 Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Although awareness is important in collaboration, user studies have shown that many groupware tools fail to meet user requirements or expectations in this respect. We show how richer documents models can lead to richer forms of awareness and present a general awareness framework based on a metamodel for structured documents and associated metrics. We describe how the framework was used to extend a collaborative authoring system to provide awareness information at variable levels of granularity according to user requirements. We also discuss how the framework could be used with other forms of collaborative tools.