Aquanet: a hypertext tool to hold your knowledge in place
HYPERTEXT '91 Proceedings of the third annual ACM conference on Hypertext
Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
VIKI: spatial hypertext supporting emergent structure
ECHT '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM European conference on Hypermedia technology
Spatial hypertext: designing for change
Communications of the ACM
Support for workspace awareness in educational groupware
CSCL '95 The first international conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
Learning to write together using groupware
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Ambiguous intentions: a paper-like interface for creative design
Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Awareness through fisheye views in relaxed-WYSIWIS groupware
GI '96 Proceedings of the conference on Graphics interface '96
Visual and spatial communication and task organization using the visual knowledge builder
GROUP '01 Proceedings of the 2001 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
The visual knowledge builder: a second generation spatial hypertext
Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
Integrating communication and information through ContactMap
Communications of the ACM - Supporting community and building social capital
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Group Awareness Support in Collaborative Writing Systems
CRIWG '00 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Groupware
Information Visualization: Perception for Design
Information Visualization: Perception for Design
The BRIDGE awareness workspace: tools supporting activity awareness for collaborative project work
Proceedings of the third Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
ContactMap: Organizing communication in a social desktop
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Parsing and interpreting ambiguous structures in spatial hypermedia
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Motivations of contributors to Wikipedia
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Interview with Peter J. Nürnberg
ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
Cooperation and quality in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Wikis
Creating, destroying, and restoring value in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
Emergent Structure and Awareness Support for Intelligence Analysis
IV '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International Conference Information Visualisation
The Tinderbox Way
Supporting emergent knowledge and team communication in police investigations
ISI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Intelligence and security informatics
Supporting reasoning and communication for intelligence officers
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
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Many wikis provide good workspace awareness. Users see quickly what changes have been made or get notified about modifications on selected pages. However, they do not support a more sophisticated social or group awareness. Being aware of social structures is important for collaborative work. Adequate tools permit team members to reflect upon their and others' roles, detect and solve related conflicts in good time, and provide a means to communicate team developments. This makes such applications an effective means for new collaborators (to understand the team), long term team members (to see what is going on), and team coordinators (to manage teams and identify potential problems). This becomes especially important for fragile, large, or ad hoc virtual teams as we find around many wikis, such as Wikipedia. Furthermore, we argue that social and group awareness increases the quality of articles indirectly and is beneficial for both experts and novice users. We introduce Socs, a prototype that permits authoring social structures using spatial hypertext methods via a so-called "social space". It serves as a means to express, store, and communicate social information about people, such as wiki authors. Furthermore, Socs integrates a Web browser and the system-wide address book that act as sources for the social space and as a basis for sophisticated awareness services. Socs provides awareness about the authors of a wiki page and which of them are part of the user's structure on the social space, those that are of special interest to the user. This creates implicitly recommendations about wiki pages (because users get notified when wiki pages are authored by known people), provides the basis of interpreting the authors' intentions (because users become aware of who wrote the articles), and foster communication (because users may want to discuss those article with whom they know).