Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces
A paper by Paul Dourish and Victoria Bellotti
SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION
Ingredients:
- Information sharing
- Knowledge of the group
- Individual activity
- Coordination
Awarness
What is it?
- "Understanding of the activities of others, which provides a context for your own activity"
Why is it important?
- "individual contributions are relevant to the group’s activity as a whole"
WhAT WAS STUDIED?
3 different collaborative writing systems
Quilt
PREP
PREP & Quilt
Content of Activity
Activity
GROVE
How to Support awareness?
- Collaborators inform each other about their activities
- Define roles
in case of Quilt and PREP
What was discovered?
- Overhead to the user
- not clear where/when information is needed
- Roles restriction slows down the collaboration
ShrEdit
What was DISCOVERED this time?
High-level awareness
- characteristics of the other's actions
Low-level awareness
- content of other's actions
it boils down to
Shared feedback
Discussion
What's your favorite collaboration tool today in comparison to ShrEdit?
Why?
What are the essential features/feedback?
What's missing?
Would you change your collaborative writing behavior based on what is being shared about your activity?
Would you feel better if you have already met face-to-face with other collaborators?
Where do you think the line between awareness and stalking is?
Developers in the classroom
How's this relate to you?
WE DID IT!
Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces
By Nomaan Ahgharian
Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces
Paul Dourish and Victoria Bellotti
