Multiuser Interface Design in CSCW Systems
Pedro A. Antunes, Nuno Guimarães · 1994
This document outlines some approaches, experiences and results of the user-interface design in several CSCW systems, highlighting a set of issues related with the successful user-interface design and defining a backgroundwhere functional and innovative approaches to the development of synchronous cooperative systems will be experimented. 1 Introduction The design and construction of cooperative applications poses a set of challenges at the user-interface design level. An appropriate design must consider the necessary mechanisms and schemes to offer an high degree of shared context, awareness and tailorability to cooperating users. Following the common 2#2 matrix classification of CSCW [Johansen 91,Ellis 91, Applegate 91,Nunamaker 91], the user-interface design is especially relevant when synchronous cooperations and geographical dispersed interactions are considered. In this context strategies to limit the impact of the underlying communications system on the user interface fun...