An Evaluation of Workspace Awareness in Collaborative, Gesture-based Diagramming Tools
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Designing usable real-time, distributed collaboration tools is a complex but important task. Workspace awareness can potentially help in making realtime, distributed collaboration tools more usable through a communication of who is in the shared workspace and what they are doing. We present qualitative evaluations of the workspace awareness features of a gesturebased diagramming tool, Distributed Knight, that supports real-time, distributed collaboration. These studies suggest that using simple, nonintrusive awareness means results in fewer breakdowns, more symmetric collaboration patterns, better coordination, and higher perceived usability.
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