3rd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharin

Research Article

How a Structured Document Model Can Support Awareness in Collaborative Authoring

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553820,
        author={Stavroula Papadopoulou and Moira C. Norrie},
        title={How a Structured Document Model Can Support Awareness in Collaborative Authoring},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharin},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2008},
        month={6},
        keywords={Authoring systems  Collaborative software  Collaborative tools  Collaborative work  Computer science  Guidelines  International collaboration  Publishing  Switches  Writing},
        doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553820}
    }
    
  • Stavroula Papadopoulou
    Moira C. Norrie
    Year: 2008
    How a Structured Document Model Can Support Awareness in Collaborative Authoring
    COLLABORATECOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553820
Stavroula Papadopoulou1,*, Moira C. Norrie1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Switzerland
*Contact email: papadopoulou@inf.ethz.ch, norrie@inf.ethz.ch

Abstract

Although awareness is important in collaboration, user studies have shown that many groupware tools fail to meet user requirements or expectations in this respect. We show how richer documents models can lead to richer forms of awareness and present a general awareness framework based on a metamodel for structured documents and associated metrics. We describe how the framework was used to extend a collaborative authoring system to provide awareness information at variable levels of granularity according to user requirements. We also discuss how the framework could be used with other forms of collaborative tools.