Groupware: some issues and experiences
Communications of the ACM
Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
The user-centered iterative design of collaborative writing software
INTERCHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERCHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems
Groupware and social dynamics: eight challenges for developers
Communications of the ACM
A usability study of awareness widgets in a shared workspace groupware system
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Awareness through fisheye views in relaxed-WYSIWIS groupware
GI '96 Proceedings of the conference on Graphics interface '96
The usability engineering lifecycle: a practitioner's handbook for user interface design
The usability engineering lifecycle: a practitioner's handbook for user interface design
Tool support for collaborative teaching and learning of object-oriented modeling
Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
A Descriptive Framework of Workspace Awareness for Real-Time Groupware
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Real-Time Cooperative Editing on the Internet
IEEE Internet Computing
Semantic Telepointers for Groupware
OZCHI '96 Proceedings of the 6th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI '96)
AUIC '06 Proceedings of the 7th Australasian User interface conference - Volume 50
An Attentive Groupware Device to Mitigate Information Overload
Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification
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Group awareness has become important in improving the usability of real-time, distributed, collaborative writing systems. However, the current set of implemented awareness mechanisms is insufficient in providing extensive and comprehensive awareness in collaborative authoring. Certainly, current mechanisms, such as telepointers and multi-user scrollbars, have contributed greatly in providing awareness support in collaborative writing. Yet, given the shortcomings of these mechanisms and the difficulty in providing rich interaction found in face-to-face collaboration, much more support needs to be provided for group awareness during authoring. This research extends the pool of all known awareness mechanisms (including those that have been discovered before but have yet to be implemented).This research discovered several awareness mechanisms not found and reported elsewhere, through conducting usability experiments with a real-time cooperative editor. This paper covers three of the mechanisms---Task Allocation Tree, User Action List and User-based History Tracking---discovered from the experiments. The paper also provides quantitative results supporting implementation of such mechanisms.