AwarenessMaps: visualizing awareness in shared workspaces

In cooperative activity users require information about their cooperative environment. AwarenessMaps provide the members of shared workspaces with an overview of users and shared documents: the PeopleMap shows an array of pictures of active users fading out over time; and the DocumentMap provides a schematic overview of the structure of a shared workspace and indicates recent changes. Keywords Visualization, awareness, shared workspace.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Tom Gross, Wido Wirsam, Wolfgang Gräther
• Keywords: Active Users, CHI 2003, Cooperative Activity Users, Cooperative Environment, Human Computer Interaction