AwarenessMaps: visualizing awareness in shared workspaces

  • Authors:
  • Tom Gross;Wido Wirsam;Wolfgang Graether

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany;Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany;Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In cooperative activity users require information about their cooperative environment. AwarenessMaps provide the members of shared workspaces with an overview of users and shared documents: the PeopleMap shows an array of pictures of active users fading out over time; and the DocumentMap provides a schematic overview of the structure of a shared workspace and indicates recent changes.