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Articulating Collaborative Contributions to Activity Awareness

John M. Carroll, Marcela Borge, Craig H. Ganoe and Mary Beth Rosson

ACTIVITY AWARENESS

Groups engaged in collaborative activities of significant scope and duration must achieve and maintain awareness of diverse aspects of their shared activity in order to coordinate effectively. For example, they must verify mutual presence and attention, which is fairly straightforward in face-to-face interaction, but often subtle, difficult, and a continuing challenge in computer-mediated collaboration. Members need to know what tools and resources they have access to and also what tools and resources their counterparts can access. The availability of tools and resources may change throughout ...

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