Customizing workspace awareness by non-programmers

Blichmann, Gregor; Meißner, Klaus

doi:10.1145/3102113.3102148

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“…To support such awareness cues -understanding of who is in the workspace, where they are working, what they are doing, and how and when activities are changed (Gutwin & Greenberg, 2002), scholars have proposed various visualization approaches. Participant lists (Blichmann, & Meißner, 2017), multi-user scrollbars (Gutwin, Roseman, & Greenberg, 1996), and radar views (Gutwin & Greenberg, 2002) are examples of widely adopted in existing works, which mostly display WA cues in a specific area of the shared workspace. The participant list comprises all elements concerning who, such as online status and identity information.…”

Section: Visual Cues Related To Workpace Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring How Workspace Awareness Cues Affect Distributed Meeting Outcome

Zhang

Ding

et al. 2022

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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Nowadays, using the online whiteboard to share knowledge in distributed meetings has become a common practice. Existing studies and practices have attempted to visualize attendees' interactive activities in whiteboard tools to support the virtual team's workspace awareness (WA). However, the impact of such visual cues on meeting success remains unclear. For this purpose, we primarily explore whether and to what extent WA cues are conducive to meeting outcome. This study applies activity theory to guide our prototype design and research analysis. A customized web-based whiteboard interface is implemented under two conditions. We conduct a study with 42 subjects in a distributed meeting scenario via a controlled experiment. Also, we analyze the system affordance via user experience. The results demonstrate that the benefits of WA cues to meeting outcome are especially embodied in goal attainment and quality of contributions, but not effectively supported in productivity and user satisfaction. Moreover, subjects report that they do not feel distracted by the system's visual cues because they do not notice those cues most of the time and use them only when needed. Drawing upon findings from our trial work, we provide several implications for designing a collaborative knowledge-sharing environment to assist the visual support of WA in distributed meetings.

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Section: Visual Cues Related To Workpace Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring How Workspace Awareness Cues Affect Distributed Meeting Outcome

Zhang

Ding

et al. 2022

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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“…In essence, the papers in this section show that recommender systems can contribute to PCS in multiple ways, such as recommending potentially fitting collaboration partners (Liu et al, 2018) by providing in situ suggestions for improving awareness based on collaborative interaction in groups (Blichmann and Meissner, 2017), by showing that usage data can be utilized as base data (Yan et al, 2016), or by suggesting task activities in group work (Li et al, 2007).…”

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A Systematic Review of Personalized Collaborative Systems

Neumayr

Augstein

2020

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Personalization, aiming at supporting users individually, according to their individual needs and prerequisites, has been discussed in a number of domains including learning, search, or information retrieval. In the field of human–computer interaction, personalization also bears high potential as users might exhibit varying and strongly individual preferences and abilities related to interaction. For instance, there is a good amount of work on personalized or adaptive user interfaces (also under the notion of intelligent user interfaces). Personalized human–computer interaction, however, does not only subsume approaches to support the individual user, it also bears high potential if applied to collaborative settings, for example, through supporting the individuals in a group as well as the group itself (considering all of its special dynamics). In collaborative settings (remote or co-located), there generally is a number of additional challenges related to human-to-human collaboration in a group, such as group communication, awareness or territoriality, device or software tool selection, or selection of collaborators. Personalized Collaborative Systems thus attempt to tackle many of these challenges. For instance, there are collaborative systems that recommend tools, content, or team constellations. Such systems have been suggested in different domains and different collaborative settings and contexts. In most cases, these systems explicitly focus on a certain aspect of personalized collaboration support (such as team composition). This article provides a broader, concise overview of existing approaches to Personalized Collaborative Systems based on a systematic literature review considering the ACM Digital Library.

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“…This toolkit extends traditional UI widgets like buttons, panels and menus for a collaborative use, including telepointers and other group awareness mechanisms for reinforcing collaboration on a synchronous environment. Blichmann and Meißner (2017) propose a widget selectionprocessallowingnon-expertuserstofilterproposedworkspaceawarenesswidgets.…”

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Is Group-Awareness Context-Awareness?

Pinheiro

Souveyet

2019

International Journal of E-Collaboration

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This article discusses the interest of emerging a unified view for group awareness and context information on groupware and context-aware systems. Group awareness corresponds to an important concept on Groupware applications, allowing individual users to be kept aware of group's activities and status. Context is defined by ubiquitous computing as any relevant information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. We assume that group awareness information should be considered as context information and handled as such. Group awareness information is often employed for decision making, contributing to users' activities and decisions, but it gives also an important clue about user's context, characterizing individual's actions regarding the group. As such, group awareness may be used for adaptation purposes, adapting the system behavior, the supplied content or its services. Besides, architectural concerns adopted on context-aware system should also be considered when developing new groupware applications that are more and more designed as context-aware systems.

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Customizing workspace awareness by non-programmers

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Exploring How Workspace Awareness Cues Affect Distributed Meeting Outcome

Exploring How Workspace Awareness Cues Affect Distributed Meeting Outcome

A Systematic Review of Personalized Collaborative Systems

Is Group-Awareness Context-Awareness?

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