SUPPORTING AWARENESS IN ASYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS

Shang Gao, Dongbai Xue, Igor Hawryszkiewycz

2005

Abstract

One of the major challenges in asynchronous collaborative environment is to provide a sense of awareness of other users actions. The amount of awareness needed varies due to specific roles users undertake during collaboration. While emphasizing the importance of roles, this paper discussed awareness-role relationship and proposed a role-based approach to specifying the awareness characteristics in asynchronous collaborative environments. An example of implementation of role-based awareness supporting system LiveNet4 was also illustrated at the end of this paper.

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in Harvard Style

Gao S., Xue D. and Hawryszkiewycz I. (2005). SUPPORTING AWARENESS IN ASYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 972-8865-20-1, pages 355-358. DOI: 10.5220/0001231703550358


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist05,
author={Shang Gao and Dongbai Xue and Igor Hawryszkiewycz},
title={SUPPORTING AWARENESS IN ASYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2005},
pages={355-358},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001231703550358},
isbn={972-8865-20-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - SUPPORTING AWARENESS IN ASYNCHRONOUS COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 972-8865-20-1
AU - Gao S.
AU - Xue D.
AU - Hawryszkiewycz I.
PY - 2005
SP - 355
EP - 358
DO - 10.5220/0001231703550358