Mutual knowledge and communicative effectiveness
Intellectual teamwork
A usability study of awareness widgets in a shared workspace groupware system
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
VisAD: connecting people to computations and people to people
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
A Descriptive Framework of Workspace Awareness for Real-Time Groupware
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Collaborative 3D Visualization with CSpray
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Evaluating computer-supported cooperative work: models and frameworks
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Visualization in Grid Computing Environments
VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
A Collaborative Extension of a Visualization System
DFMA '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Distributed Frameworks for Multimedia Applications
Exploring visual feedback of change conflict in a distributed 3D environment
Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
A comparison of chat and audio in media rich environments
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A collaborative face-to-face design support system based on sketching and gesturing
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Improvement of a computer-based surveyor-training tool using a user-centered approach
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Multi-Level modeling and access control for data sharing in collaborative design
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Human cognition in manual assembly: Theories and applications
Advanced Engineering Informatics
A three-stage framework for introducing a 4D tool in large consulting firms
Advanced Engineering Informatics
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Mechanisms and tools able to facilitate collaboration are needed when remotely team members wish to jointly analyze data to create and acquire new knowledge. This paper discusses the main challenges involved in remote collaboration systems used in scientific visualization, and presents our solutions and assessments. To evaluate the usability and effectiveness of the collaborative tools comprising this system, we conduct an experiment on several groups of users. More particularly, we compare various forms of audio and textual communication tools as well as graphical indicators used to exchange information. Our analyses reveal how important it is to choose the means of conversation and, surprisingly, that graphical indicators have little influence. Furthermore, these experiments demonstrate that the system's usability can be significantly improved through providing appropriate grounding and awareness support. This results in increased satisfaction, and in turn a potential increase the quality of collaborative work.