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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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An approach to usable security based on event monitoring and visualization
Paul Dourish,David Redmiles +1 more
TL;DR: The approach is taking focuses on visibility -- how can the authors make relevant features of the security context apparent to users, in order to allow them to make informed decisions about their actions and the potential implications of those actions.
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Social Presence in Synchronous Virtual Learning Situations: The Role of Nonverbal Signals Displayed by Avatars.
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The Awareness Network: To Whom Should I Display My Actions? And, Whose Actions Should I Monitor?.
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Towards supporting awareness of indirect conflicts across software configuration management workspaces
TL;DR: This paper presents a new, cross-workspace awareness technique that supports one particular kind of indirect conflict, namely those indirect conflicts caused by changes to class signatures.
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Tracking changes in collaborative writing: edits, visibility and group maintenance
Jeremy Birnholtz,Steven Ibara +1 more
TL;DR: This interview study aims to understand how people perceive and consider the potential impacts of their own and others' edits as they write together, and suggests that edits embody not just changes to a document, but also social messages that have group maintenance implications.
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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.