Applying thematic analysis to define an awareness interpretation for collaborative computer games

Teruel, Miguel A.; Navarro, Elena; González, Pascual; López-Jaquero, Víctor; Montero, Francisco

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2016.01.009

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“…This turns awareness information into a cornerstone of telerehabilitation systems, where awareness may lead to a suitable interaction. In order to guide the identification of such awareness requirements when developing cognitive and physical rehabilitation systems, an already existing awareness interpretation, namely, Gamespace Awareness [29], has been chosen as the foundation of our proposal. Such awareness interpretation was initially developed to deal with the awareness requirements of collaborative games.…”

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“…One of the main CSCW concepts is awareness that has been defined as "the up-to-the-moment understanding of another person's interaction within a shared workspace" [6]. In a previous work [29] the available awareness interpretations (collaboration awareness, situation awareness, workspace awareness, context awareness, social awareness, and so on) were analyzed concluding that it is not possible to cover all the features of modern complex collaborative systems by using just only one of them. To solve such problem a thematic analysis was conducted that led to the definition of Gamespace Awareness that integrates the existing proposals in order to guide in the specification of the awareness of one of the most complex collaborative systems: collaborative video-games.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition, in the telerehabilitation domain some other elements should be taken into account, such as how to provide users with the necessary feedback while they are carrying out their rehabilitation tasks. Therefore, in this work, based on these needs already identified in [30] and our previous proposal [29], we propose an awareness interpretation to be used in the design of collaborative physical and cognitive telerehabilitation systems, identifying both which awareness elements may be of interest and which stimuli may be used to interact with patients making the most of their rehabilitation process.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This interpretation has been defined by adapting Gamespace Awareness [29] to make it suitable for this kind of systems. Table 1 presents the elements identified for this awareness interpretation.…”

Section: Awareness Interpretation For Physical and Cognitive Rehabilimentioning

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“…Thanks to this awareness feature, the participants could be aware of the presence of coins positioned behind them that cannot be seen in a 3D third-person view. For a more detailed analysis of the difference between location and position please refer to [29]. To reinforce this feedback, the concept of nearness to the coin could be represented as aural messages with a variable pitch or increasing the haptic signal depending of such nearness.…”

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Exploiting Awareness for the Development of Collaborative Rehabilitation Systems

Teruel¹,

Navarro²,

González³

2017

Mobile Information Systems

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Physical and cognitive rehabilitation is usually a challenging activity as people with any kind of deficit have to carry out tasks that are difficult due to their damaged abilities. Moreover, such difficulties become even harder while they have to work at home in an isolated manner. Therefore, the development of collaborative rehabilitation systems emerges as one of the best alternatives to mitigate such isolation and turn a difficult task into a challenging and stimulating one. As any other collaborative system, the need of being aware of other participants (their actions, locations, status, etc.) is paramount to achieve a proper collaborative experience. This awareness should be provided by using those feedback stimuli more appropriately according to the physical and cognitive abilities of the patients. This has led us to define an awareness interpretation for collaborative cognitive and physical systems. This has been defined by extending an existing proposal that has been already applied to the collaborative games field. Furthermore, in order to put this interpretation into practice, a case study based on an association image-writing rehabilitation pattern is presented illustrating how this cognitive rehabilitation task has been extended with collaborative features and enriched with awareness information.

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Section: Awareness Interpretation For Physical and Cognitive Rehabilimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Present the First Awareness Elements Are Those Related Tomentioning

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Exploiting Awareness for the Development of Collaborative Rehabilitation Systems

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Navarro²,

González³

2017

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A comprehensive framework for modeling requirements of CSCW systems

Teruel

Navarro

López-Jaquero

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J Software Evolu Process

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As in any other system, an accurate requirements specification is essential to developing a collaborative system, which has special kinds of requirements that are hard to specify by means of current Requirements Engineering techniques. The Collaborative Systems Requirement Modeling Framework (CSRMF) was developed to address this problem; the original Collaborative Systems Requirement Modeling Language was extended and modeled to properly deal with collaboration and awareness requirements. The developed CSRMF framework consists of 3 components: an Requirements Engineering modeling language able to represent collaboration among users as well as awareness needs, a set of design guidelines that drive Computer Supported Cooperative Work system specification by means of 5 different types of diagrams, and a supporting computer-aided software engineering tool to specify and validate Computer Supported Cooperative Work system requirements. CSRMF provides Requirements Engineers with a complete solution to the specification of awareness-demanding collaborative systems, as they can now take advantage of a language and a set of guidelines supported by a tool to guide them in specifying system requirements.

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