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Extended radar view and modification director: awareness mechanisms for synchronous collaborative authoring

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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 169 archive
Proceedings of the 7th Australasian User interface conference - Volume 50 table of contents

Hobart, Australia

Pages: 45 - 52

Year of Publication: 2006

ISBN ~ ISSN:1445-1336 , 1-920682-32-5

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Minh Hong Tran	CICEC--Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia
Yun Yang	CICEC--Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia
Gitesh K. Raikundalia	ITArl--Victoria University, Melbourne City, Australia and CICEC--Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

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Australian Computer Society, Inc. Darlinghurst, Australia, Australia

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Providing effective support for group awareness is a critical requirement of synchronous collaborative authoring tools. This paper reports our work on developing new awareness mechanisms including Extended Radar View (ERV) and Modification Director (MD) for Co Word, a synchronous collaborative authoring tool that is developed based on Microsoft^® Word. ERV supports awareness for collaborative authoring tasks by showing both users' telecarets-eye views--the locations of working areas--and over-the-shoulder views--the locations of viewing areas in a shared Word document. MD keeps track of changes in the document, and notifies users when their text is modified by other people. This paper also reports an ongoing user-based study that is conducted to evaluate the usefulness of ERV and MD. The preliminary results show that ERV is useful in supporting group awareness, and ERV is preferred to a conventional radar view. MD was found useful to some extent in supporting awareness for collaborative authoring.

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