Awareness systems: known results, theory, concepts and future challenges

The Community Bar is a groupware tool supporting informal awareness and casual interaction for small communities of intimate collaborators. Its conceptual design is primarily based on a comprehensive sociological theory called the Locales Framework, with extra details supplied by other theoretical model of awareness. It is also influenced by the Microsoft SideShow system: it displays basic awareness information in a space-conservative sidebar, and reveals progressively more information through a series of transient large tooltips and pop-up windows. Author Keywords CSCW, informal awareness, casual interaction. ACM Classification Keywords H.5.3 [Information Interfaces and Presentation (e.g. HCI)]: Group and Organization Interfaces---Computer-supported cooperative work.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Panos Markopoulos, Boris E. R. de Ruyter, Wendy E. Mackay
• Keywords: ACM Classification Keywords, Basic Awareness Information, CHI 2005, Human Computer Interaction, Informal Awareness