Activity Awareness: A Framework for Sharing Knowledge of People, Projects, and Places
Koichi Hayashi, Tan Hazama, Takahiko Nomura, Toshifiitni Yamada, Stephan Gudmundson · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2005
In this paper we describe the concept of activity awareness , which gives workers indications of what is happening and what has happened recently in collaborative activities. The key feature of activity awarenessis the use of individual workspaces, as opposed to shared workspaces. We introduce an activity representation that can be extracted from workers’ individual workspaces. By using extracted activity information, it extends the scope of awareness from tight collaboration within a shared workspace to more loose collaboration. It enablesworkers to be aware of the latest information created within other members’ individual environments and of the progress made by loosely connected groups. We introduce three awareness nodes: people, projects , and places . In our model, individual activities interact at these awareness nodes. Our current implementation adopts a temporally threaded workspace model for representing individual activities and introduces an awareness presentation sche ma for representing the three awareness nodes. The temporally threaded workspace model captures a worker’s activity as a sequence of changes to the information space of the individual’s workspace. An awareness presentation schema generates web pages to show awareness information about the monitored activities. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.