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Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces
Paul Dourish,Victoria Bellotti +1 more
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A study of shared editor use is discussed which suggests that awareness information provided and exploited passively through the shared workspace, allows users to move smoothly between close and loose collaboration, and to assign and coordinate work dynamically.Citations
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Portholes: supporting awareness in a distributed work group
Paul Dourish,Sara Bly +1 more
TL;DR: Initial experiences of the system in use at EuroPARC and PARC suggest that Portholes both supports shared awareness and helps to build a “sense of community”.
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Concurrency control in groupware systems
C. A. Ellis,S. J. Gibbs +1 more
TL;DR: An algorithm for concurrency control in real-time groupware systems is presented and its advantages are its simplicity of use and its responsiveness: users can operate directly on the data without obtaining locks.
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RCS—a system for version control
TL;DR: Basic version control concepts are introduced and the practice of version control using RCS is discussed, and usage statistics show that RCS's delta method is space and time efficient.
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Why CSCW applications fail: problems in the design and evaluationof organizational interfaces
TL;DR: Examination of several application areas reveals a common dynamic: a factor contributing to the application’s failure is the disparity between those who will benefit from an application and those who must do additional work to support it.