Applying distortion-oriented displays to groupware

Greenberg, Saul; Gutwin, Carl; Cockburn, Andrew

doi:10.1145/240080.318419

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“…We strongly believe that point systems demonstrating technical feasibility, such as those of our previous work (Greenberg, Gutwin & Cockburn 1996a, Greenberg, Gutwin & Cockburn 1996b, Greenberg, Gutwin & Cockburn 1996c, are insufficient for effective evaluation of awareness support. We also believe that small awareness mock-up systems such as the welding simulator used by Gutwin & Greenberg (1998b), although ideal for controlled quantitative experimentation, will provide different insights into awareness needs than those revealed in rich and realistic work support systems.…”

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confidence: 88%

An Investigation of Groupware Support for Collaborative Awareness Through Distortion-Oriented Views

Cockburn¹,

Weir²

1999

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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This paper reviews models and theoretical frameworks of collaborative awareness in the use of real-time groupware systems. The review is used to motivate and guide an investigation of distortion-oriented mechanisms for supporting collaborators' fluid and dynamic awareness requirements. We describe our development and evaluation of Dome, a distortion-oriented multi-user editor. Although we designed Dome to provide a realistic and useful platform for the investigation of awareness concepts, our evaluation revealed major flaws in its support for distortion-oriented awareness. We analyse the cause of these errors, some of which have been undetected in prior work, and provide precise formulations that will overcome them.

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Section: Design Goals For Domementioning

confidence: 88%

An Investigation of Groupware Support for Collaborative Awareness Through Distortion-Oriented Views

Cockburn¹,

Weir²

1999

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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“…Our previous work (Greenberg et al, 1996a;Greenberg et al, 1996b;Greenberg et al, 1996c) demonstrated a variety of distortion-oriented mechanisms for workspace awareness in text-based and graphical workspaces. The systems described in these works were purely intended to demonstrate the types of awareness that distortion-oriented mechanisms could provide, and they were inadequate for evaluation.…”

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“…In groupware environments they can be used to provide tailorable levels of awareness of coworkers while maintaining a focus on the local region of personal work. Our previous work (Greenberg et al, 1996a;Greenberg et al, 1996b;Greenberg et al, 1996c) has demonstrated several styles of distortion-oriented workspace awareness using point systems, but it has fallen short of evaluation. In this paper we describe a fully functional and robust distortion-oriented multi-user editor called DOME, and we discuss the results of its evaluation.…”

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Distortion-oriented Workspace Awareness in DOME

Weir

Cockburn

1998

People and Computers XIII

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Distortion-oriented visualization techniques such as magnification-lensesIn real-time groupware environments, distortion-oriented visualizations offer additional benefits. By providing one distorted region for each user of a groupware workspace, users can maintain an awareness of the location and activities of their colleagues while simultaneously having a focused area of detail for their own work.We describe the design and evaluation of DOME, a fully-functional distortion-oriented multi-user editor. Unexpected usability problems and potential solutions are discussed.

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Aroma

Pedersen

Sokoler

1997

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The AROMA project is exploring the kind of awareness that people effortless are able to maintain about other beings who are located physically close. We are designing technology that attempts to mediate a similar kind of awareness among people who are geographically dispersed but want to stay better in touch. AROMA technology can be thought of as a stand-alone communication device or -more likely --an augmentation of existing technologies such as the telephone or full-blown media spaces. Our approach differs from other recent designs for awareness (a) by choosing pure abstract representations on the display site, (b) by possibly remapping the signal across media between capture and display, and, finally, (c) by explicitly extending the application domain to include more than the working life, to embrace social interaction in general.We are building a series of prototypes to learn if abstract representation of activity data does indeed convey a sense of remote presence and does so in a sutTiciently subdued manner to allow the user to concentrate on his or her main activity. We have done some initial testing of the technical feasibility of our designs. What still remains is an extensive effort of designing a symbolic language of remote presence, done in parallel with studies of how people will connect and communicate through such a language as they live with the AROMA system.

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Applying distortion-oriented displays to groupware

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An Investigation of Groupware Support for Collaborative Awareness Through Distortion-Oriented Views

An Investigation of Groupware Support for Collaborative Awareness Through Distortion-Oriented Views

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