Integrating Communication, Cooperation, and Awareness: The DIVA Virtual Office Environment (1994)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Sohlenkamp94integratingcommunication,,
author = {Markus Sohlenkamp and Greg Chwelos},
title = {Integrating Communication, Cooperation, and Awareness: The DIVA Virtual Office Environment},
booktitle = {},
year = {1994},
pages = {331--343},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
DIVA, a novel environment for group work, is presented. This prototype virtual office environment provides support for communication, cooperation, and awareness in both the synchronous and asynchronous modes, smoothly integrated into a simple and intuitive interface which may be viewed as a replacement for the standard graphical user interface desktop. In order to utilize the skills that people have acquired through years of shared work in the real offices, DIVA is modeled after the standard office, abstracting elements of physical offices required to support collaborative work: people, rooms, desks, and documents. KEYWORDS: Groupware, Communication, Cooperation, Awareness, Synchronous/asynchronous, Virtual office, Integration, CSCW INTRODUCTION CSCW and groupware are sufficiently mature that there are now numerous examples of both commercial products and research prototypes for most of the major categories of CSCW technologies (the unOfficial Yellow Pages of CSCW lists 340 commerci...
