Framework for Role-Based Specification and Evaluation of Awareness Support in Synchronous Collaborative Applications

  • Authors:
  • Jill Drury;Marian G. Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WETICE '02 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: nfrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The contribution of this paper is a framework for specifying and evaluating awareness-related features of synchronous collaborative computing applications. While previous work acknowledges that roles are important to understanding awareness needs, no method has yet been developed to provide a fine-grained, role-based approach to both specifying the awareness-related characteristics of collaborative computing applications and evaluatingwhether the application meets the awareness requirements. We have been developing a means of specifying and evaluating awareness needs in synchronous collaborative systems based on the framework presented in this paper. We feel this framework can be used by other researchers, as well, to develop methods of specifying and evaluating the ability of collaborative applications to support awareness.