A Framework for Asynchronous Change Awareness in Collaboratively-Constructed Documents

Tam, J. and Greenberg, S. (2004)
A Framework for Asynchronous Change Awareness in Collaboratively-Constructed Documents. In X International Workshop on Groupware, Lecture Notes in Computer Science - CRIWG'04, LNCS Number 3198. (San Carlos, Costa Rica), Springer Verlag, pages 67-83, September 5-9. Earlier version as Report 2004-744-09, March.

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Abstract

Change awareness is the ability of individuals to track the asynchronous changes made to a collaborative document or surface by other participants over time. We develop a framework that articulates what change awareness in-formation is critical if people are to track and maintain change awareness. Information elements include: knowing who changed the artifact, what those changes involve, where changes occur, when changes were made, how things have changed, and why people made the changes. The framework also accounts for people's need to view these changes from different perspectives: an artifact-based view, a person-based view, and a workspace-based view.

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@INPROCEEDINGS { 2004-ChangeAwareness.CRIWG,
CLASS = { CONFARTICLE },
AUTHOR = { Tam, J. and Greenberg, S. },
TITLE = { A Framework for Asynchronous Change Awareness in Collaboratively-Constructed Documents },
BOOKTITLE = { X International Workshop on Groupware, Lecture Notes in Computer Science - CRIWG'04 },
PAGES = { 67-83 },
YEAR = { 2004 },
MONTH = { September 5-9 },
PUBLISHER = { Springer Verlag },
ADDRESS = { San Carlos, Costa Rica },
VOLUME = { LNCS Number 3198 },
NOTE = { Earlier version as Report 2004-744-09, March },
}