A Usability Study of Workspace Awareness Widgets

Groupware systems that use large shared workspaces generally provide only limited awareness information about other collaborators in the workspace. We are designing a set of groupware widgets to provide this missing information. This paper describes a usability study of a number of such widgets. The study has both validated our intuitions about the need for workspace awareness information, and revealed the strengths and weaknesses of several current designs.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Carl Gutwin, Mark Roseman
• Keywords: Awareness Information, CHI 1996, Groupware Widgets, Human Computer Interaction, Large Shared Workspaces