Towards a Cooperative Media Space

In computer-supported cooperative work and computer-mediated communication several concepts and systems for remote interaction have been developed within the last decades. For instance, media spaces are systems that ‘support distributed work groups through access to information that supports general awareness’, which ‘may lead to informal interactions, spontaneous connections...’ [5]. They were motivated by the fact that ‘informal interaction, spontaneous conversations, and even general awareness of people and events at other sites’ should not be neglected in geographically distributed groups [4]. Some examples of media spaces are Portholes [5], RAVE [6], and Thunderwire [1].