An Approach for Asynchronous Awareness Support in Collaborative Non-Linear Storytelling

  • Authors:

  • Jana Schumann;Tanja Buttler;Stephan Lukosch

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Computer Science, Department of Simulation and Graphics, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany 39106;Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 2600 GA;Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands 2600 GA

  • Venue:
  • Computer Supported Cooperative Work
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Workspace awareness support is mandatory for group support systems. It allows users not only to follow actions of others, but to understand and respond to any changes others make to the workspace. In this paper, we present a novel approach for asynchronous awareness support by offering different filters to retrieve relevant awareness information and visualizing the evolution of the shared artifact. We illustrate our approach with a tool for collaborative non-linear storytelling in which users can jointly create a story graph of interconnected audio files. Such a story graph is an example for a non-linear story. We describe the development of a prototype that visualizes how the collaborative story has evolved over time. We evaluate our approach for asynchronous awareness support in an experiment with 40 participants exploring story graphs of different complexity. The evaluation results show that our visualization approach helps group members to assess who has modified the shared story, how it was modified, what exactly has been modified, and when it has been modified.