'Today' messages: lightweight group awareness via email

`Today' messages are short daily status emails sent by members of a project team to each other. Their original purpose was to take the place of status updates at meetings. However, they had the unexpected additional effect of increasing group task awareness at very low cost. We present the results of a small study of `today' messages and their effect on group dynamics. Keywords Group awareness, group coordination, email

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CHI
• Authors: A. J. Bernheim Brush, Alan Borning
• Keywords: CHI 2003, Group Task Awareness, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords Group Awareness, Unexpected Additional Effect