A Usability Study of Workspace Awareness Widgets

Gutwin, C. and Roseman, R. (1996)
A Usability Study of Workspace Awareness Widgets. In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System, Companion Proceedings - ACM CHI'06, pages 214-215, April 13-17. Also collected in Report 1995-580-32, December.

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Abstract

Groupware systems that use large shared workspaces generally provide only limited awareness information about other collaborators in the workspace. We are designing a set of groupware widgets to provide this missing information. This paper describes a usability study of a number of such widgets. The study has both validated our intuitions about the need for workspace awareness information, and revealed the strengths and weaknesses of several current designs.

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@INPROCEEDINGS { 1996-Usability.CHI,
CLASS = { SHORT },
AUTHOR = { Gutwin, C. and Roseman, R. },
TITLE = { A Usability Study of Workspace Awareness Widgets },
BOOKTITLE = { ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System, Companion Proceedings - ACM CHI'06 },
PAGES = { 214-215 },
YEAR = { 1996 },
MONTH = { April 13-17 },
NOTE = { Also collected in Report 1995-580-32, December },
}