2nd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Research Article

Increasing Awareness in Collaborative Authoring through Edit Profiling

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361864,
        author={S. Papadopoulou and C. Ignat and G. Oster and M. Norrie},
        title={Increasing Awareness in Collaborative Authoring through Edit Profiling},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
        year={2007},
        month={5},
        keywords={Authoring systems Collaboration Collaborative work Computer science Displays Electronic catalog Merging Radar Usability Visualization},
        doi={10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361864}
    }
    
  • S. Papadopoulou
    C. Ignat
    G. Oster
    M. Norrie
    Year: 2007
    Increasing Awareness in Collaborative Authoring through Edit Profiling
    COLLABORATECOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COLCOM.2006.361864
S. Papadopoulou1,*, C. Ignat1,*, G. Oster1,*, M. Norrie1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Switzerland
*Contact email: papadopoulou@inf.ethz.ch, ignat@inf.ethz.ch, oster@inf.ethz.ch, norrie@inf.ethz.ch

Abstract

Awareness of the activities of other users and also document evolution is an important part of collaborative authoring. We introduce the concept of an editing profile that can be used to maintain and visualise measures of the changes made across a document by different users in both synchronous and asynchronous collaborative editing. It provides a simple means of making users aware of ¿hot areas¿ and also who is or has been active in various parts of the document, as well as a quick access point into parts of the document that have been changed. The profile can be adapted to display the most relevant information based on both user preference and situation.