Supporting Awareness in Mixed Presence Groupware

Tang, A., and Greenberg, S. (2005). Supporting Awareness in Mixed Presence Groupware. In Awareness Systems: Known Results, Theory, Concepts and Future Challenges - Workshop at CHI 2005.

Abstract

Mixed presence groupware (MPG) is software that connects both collocated and distributed collaborators together in a shared visual workspace. Our early study of this new genre is that people focus their collaborative energy on collocated partners at the expense of remote partners, which imbalances collaboration. We call this problem presence disparity, caused by the imbalance of awareness exuded by virtual embodiments versus actual people. VideoArms is an embodiment technique that mitigates presence disparity by enhancing awareness of remote collaborators in a mixed presence workspace. We describe how VideoArms works, and the design principles behind its construction

Materials

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Keywords

Mixed presence groupware, awareness, consequential communication, embodiments, gestures

BibTeX

@inproceedings{tang2005awarenessmpg,
  year = {2005},
  url = {http://www.awareness-research.org/WS_programme.html},
  type = {workshop},
  title = {Supporting Awareness in Mixed Presence Groupware},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2005-chi2005workshop-awareness-in-mpg.pdf},
  keywords = {Mixed presence groupware, awareness, consequential communication, embodiments,
gestures},
  editor = {Paulos Markopoulos and Boris De Ruyter and Wendy Mackay},
  date-modified = {2014-01-22 04:49:06 +0000},
  date-added = {2014-01-22 04:45:45 +0000},
  booktitle = {Awareness Systems: Known Results, Theory, Concepts and Future Challenges
- Workshop at CHI 2005},
  author = {Tang, Anthony and Greenberg, Saul},
  abstract = {Mixed presence groupware (MPG) is software that connects both collocated
and distributed collaborators together in a shared visual workspace. Our early
study of this new genre is that people focus their collaborative energy on
collocated partners at the expense of remote partners, which imbalances collaboration.
We call this problem presence disparity, caused by the imbalance of awareness
exuded by virtual embodiments versus actual people. VideoArms is an embodiment
technique that mitigates presence disparity by enhancing awareness of remote
collaborators in a mixed presence workspace. We describe how VideoArms works,
and the design principles behind its construction},
}