Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces-英文文献.pdf

Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces Paul Dourish and Victoria Bellotti Rank Xerox EuroPARC 61 Regent St Cambridge CB2 lAB UK dourish@europarc.xerox. tom, bellotti@ ABSTRACT respect to group goals and progress. The information, then, allows groups to manage the process of collaborative work- Awareness of individual and group activities is critical to ing. successful collaboration and is commonly supported in CSCW systems by active, information generation mecha- It is particularly important to recognise that the context nisms separate from the shared workspace. These within which group members collaborate is comprised of mechanisms pena~ise information providers, presuppose rel- both the object of that collaboration and the way in which the evance to the recipient, and make access difficult, We object is produced. We must therefore consider as context discuss a study of shared editor use which suggests that