The Session Capture and Replay Paradigm for Asynchronous Collaboration

Manohar, N; Prakash, Atul

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-0349-7_10

Cited by 27 publications

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“…Manohar et al [19] describe a scaffold for asynchronous interaction with synchronous sessions. The main goals described are: (1) consistency of the replay, (2) users must be able to successfully collaborate by exchanging, editing, browsing and interacting with the session recording, and (3) desirability to find moments of interest.…”

Section: B Barriers In Understanding Past Work Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Asynchronous understanding of creative sessions using archived collaboration artifacts

Gericke

Wenzel

Meinel

2014

2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)

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To a large extend, collaboration and communication consists of the understanding of extrinsic activity. This task is especially hard to achieve in remote settings or also locally when people cannot take part in meetings. In this paper we are addressing the question, if understanding of the essential decisions, facts, and processes can be achieved by just consuming collaboration data afterwards. Therefore, we take existing experiment recordings and make them explorable by the TeleBoard History Browser. Participants had a given time frame to answer content-related questions for a design thinking session.We found out that people are able to review those creative sessions and grasp the essential key points in the past work processes. Still, people are approaching the data differently depending on their personal preferences and their general process knowledge. It turns out that our approach can help distributed teams in working closer together beyond conference calls or shared documents. From our perspective, traceability of past interactions can substantially ease remote collaboration, especially in creative settings.

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Section: B Barriers In Understanding Past Work Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Asynchronous understanding of creative sessions using archived collaboration artifacts

Gericke

Wenzel

Meinel

2014

2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)

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“…audio stream and window events), and users annotate, modify, and exchange it during collaboration. This object is used to replay collaborative activity by dispatching the stream objects to an application [12]. On the other hand, Gutwin et al treat latecomers as a user who has been disconnected from the beginning of a session.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualizing history to improve users' location and comprehension of collaborative work

Kim

Shipman

2012

Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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Many applications place users into collaborations with unknown and distant partners. Collaboration between participants in such environments is more efficient if individuals can identify and understand the contributions of others. A traditional approach to supporting such understanding within the CSCW community is to record user activity for later access. Issues with this approach include difficulties in locating activity of interest in large tasks and that history is often recorded at a system-activity level instead of at a human-activity level. To address these issues, this paper introduces CoActIVE, a history mechanism that clusters records of user activity and extracts keywords from manipulated content in an attempt to provide a human-level representation of history. Multiple visualization techniques' based on this processing were compared in their ability to improve users' location and comprehension of the activity of others. The results show the combination of clustering low level history events into activity segments and new visualizations summarizing activity within a segment result in a significant improvement over prior interfaces.

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“…On reconnection, queued events from store-andforward systems are delivered to the receiver and can be replayed -both to reconstruct state, and to provide an understanding of what happened during the absence. For example, DreamObjects [19] allows playback of some or all of the queued events, and a system by Manohar and Prakash provided a 'video-player' interface that allowed playback to be paused or fast-forwarded [20].  Type-based selection.…”

Section: Techniques For Handling Aspects Of Disconnectionmentioning

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DiscoTech

Roy

Graham

Gutwin

2012

Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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Disconnection and reconnection are common problems for users of synchronous groupware, but these problems are not easy for developers to handle because of the wide range of scenarios and timeframes that must be considered. We have developed a new toolkit called DiscoTech that helps programmers deal with disconnection. The toolkit is based on five design dimensions that determine how stored information can be manipulated as the system waits for an absent user to rejoin, and how information should be replayed upon reconnection. DiscoTech provides a plug-in architecture to handle a wide variety of behaviours that developers may need during disconnection; these plug-ins range from fully generic tools to customized strategies with full knowledge of the groupware application. We present the design of the DiscoTech toolkit, show examples of its use, and provide evidence that it covers a broad range of situations, imposes minimal performance overhead, and is easy for programmers to learn. DiscoTech handles a wider range of issues than previous toolkits, without requiring undue effort, and provides a practical way to improve the real-world usability of synchronous groupware.

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The Session Capture and Replay Paradigm for Asynchronous Collaboration

Cited by 27 publications

References 6 publications

Asynchronous understanding of creative sessions using archived collaboration artifacts

Asynchronous understanding of creative sessions using archived collaboration artifacts

Visualizing history to improve users' location and comprehension of collaborative work

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