Visualizing Common Ground

  • Authors:
  • Mei C. Chuah;Steven F. Roth

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IV '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The process of analyzing and using information is oftencollaborative in nature especially given the broad andmulti-disciplinary tasks that we must support today.Collaboration requires people to share "common ground",which is the knowledge that enables them to communicateand, more generally, to coordinate their activities. Commonground has been explored in a variety of systems, domains,and disciplines. Of particular interest are the newdevelopments in online social environments (instantmessaging, SMS, multi-player virtual worlds) that havebecome quite popular. Collaborative informationvisualization environments can benefit from commonground advances that are not only in the collaborativevisualization area but also from advances in online socialenvironments. In this paper we expand the notion ofcommon ground for visualization systems based on ourexperiences with two systems we have developed. CoMotionis a collaborative information visualization environment.Reality Instant Messaging is a system that provides lessonsfrom new interactive online social environments.