Contextualized Awareness: A Lynchpin of Software Development, Workshop on Awareness in Activity-Centric Groupware Design

Sarma, A. Contextualized Awareness: A Lynchpin of Software Development, Workshop on Awareness in Activity-Centric Groupware Design, held in conjunction with the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006— Banff, Canada), November 2006. --- Creating coordination tools for workspace awareness, requires a thorough understanding of the kinds of information that is required to assist a developer in the specific task at hand. To accomplish this, we need to carefully explore the following three aspects of information: (1) the kinds of information that is to be shared, (2) the granularity of the information that is to be provided, and (3) the presentation of information that is appropriate to a given situation or member of the team.

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