ThreeDness: Representing Awareness in cooperative Applications.
Fabrizio Nunnari, Carla Simone · 2002
Abstract The paper presents an approach and an architecture supporting the representation of awareness information in cooperative applications. The approach is based on the choice to make a clear distinction between the representation of actors current focus and of the various degrees of awareness information. The architecture is influenced by the basic choice to support flexibility and adaptability of the representation according to users needs. The paper illustrates the approach through a prototype that serves as a demonstrator and discusses the improvements that have been derived from this experience. 1 Motivations and background The recent evolution of cooperative applications shows a great improvement in their functionality, interoperability and integration with WEB technologies. Unfortunately, the design of their interfaces does not show, in general, the same degree of innovation. Most of the application interfaces are still based on a paradigm based on windows, buttons, etc., which is often adopted in WEB interfaces too. Of course, these considerations can be done for single-user application interfaces but the limits of the above paradigm are especially evident in the case