Research Article
Read, Write, and Navigation Awareness in Realistic Multi-View Collaborations
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553880, author={Sasa Junuzovic and Prasun Dewan and Yong Rui}, title={Read, Write, and Navigation Awareness in Realistic Multi-View Collaborations}, proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharin}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM}, year={2008}, month={6}, keywords={Awareness view divergence multi-user editor}, doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553880} }- Sasa Junuzovic
Prasun Dewan
Yong Rui
Year: 2008
Read, Write, and Navigation Awareness in Realistic Multi-View Collaborations
COLLABORATECOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553880
Abstract
Read, write, and navigation awareness allow users of a multi-view collaborative editor to get fine-grained information about whether others are reading what they are editing, where others are editing, and to which areas of the document others have navigated, respectively. We derive new high-level tools that directly support the three kinds of awareness. The results of a decision-making study involving the use of these tools revealed that write awareness helps with fine-grained conflict prevention, read awareness reduces unnecessary verbal communication, and navigation awareness is most effective when coupled with read and write awareness. Thus, the study identifies specific uses of the three forms of awareness and motivates tools for supporting them.
