F@: a framework of group awareness in synchronous distributed groupware

  • Authors:
  • Minh Hong Tran;Yun Yang;Gitesh K. Raikundalia

  • Affiliations:
  • FICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia;FICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia;FICT, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

  • Venue:
  • APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web conference on Frontiers of WWW Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper describes F@ (read as “fat”), our innovative framework of group awareness, which aims to extend our understanding of group awareness and help designers develop awareness mechanisms. First, the abstract level of F@ identifies four awareness schools, including conversational awareness, workspace awareness, contextual awareness and self-awareness. Then, the concrete level of F@ presents some fundamental time-related properties of these four awareness schools using temporal logic expressions. The paper also illustrates examples of how F@ can be applied to the design of awareness mechanisms.