Workspace Awareness Support with Radar Views

Real-time groupware systems often let each participant control their own view into a shared workspace. This strategy can reduce awareness about where and how others are interacting with the document or the workspace artifacts. We have designed a number of awareness widgets to help people regain this awareness. In this paper we present several radar views that provide awareness information on top of a global overview of the workspace. Our displays give lightweight access to information about others' locations and activities, providing for richer personto-person interaction in groupware systems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Carl Gutwin, Saul Greenberg, Mark Roseman
• Keywords: Awareness, CHI 1996, Groupware Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Real-time Groupware Systems