Awareness and the WWW: an Overview (2000)
| Venue: | ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin |
| Citations: | 12 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Liechti00awarenessand,
author = {Olivier Liechti},
title = {Awareness and the WWW: an Overview},
journal = {ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin},
year = {2000},
volume = {21},
pages = {3--12}
}
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Abstract
The notion of awareness has received a lot of attention in the CSCW literature for quite some time now. Because it cannot be very precisely and uniquely defined, this notion covers a range of issues and is critical in very different situations. This is also true in the particular context of the WWW, where awareness has more than one facet. One objective for this paper is to give an overview of the field, by reviewing different awareness categories and by showing how they relate to Web-based systems. The discussion also gives an overview of the work done by the author in this area. Another goal for the paper is to introduce the papers presented at the CSCW'2000 Workshop on Awareness and the WWW with a short summary. Keywords Awareness, CSCW, WWW, implementation platform, activity space, group awareness, workspace awareness, contextual awareness, peripheral awareness INTRODUCTION There are different ways to look at the relation between CSCW and the WWW. First of all, one should of co...
