Integrating communication, cooperation, and awareness: the DIVA virtual office environment

  • Authors:
  • Markus Sohlenkamp;Greg Chwelos

  • Affiliations:
  • GMD (German National Research Center for Computer Science), Schloβ Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A4

  • Venue:
  • CSCW '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

DIVA, a novel environment for group work, is presented. This prototype virtual office environment provides support for communication, cooperation, and awareness in both the synchronous and asynchronous modes, smoothly integrated into a simple and intuitive interface which may be viewed as a replacement for the standard graphical user interface desktop. In order to utilize the skills that people have acquired through years of shared work in real offices, DIVA is modeled after the standard office, abstracting elements of physical offices required to support collaborative work: people, rooms, desks, and documents.