Interfaces for Groupware

Marcos R.S. Borges

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

José A. Pino

Universidad de Chile

Carla Valle

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Interfaces for Groupware

Does Groupware require different types of interfaces? Maximize cooperation Mutual Awareness Multiple views

Examples How to deal with high level of equivocality and

uncertainty? How to deal with anonymity?

Motivation

Communication Mechanisms Human to Human Teams Data Driven communication

Propagation of Awareness Information Asynchronous Interaction

Appropriate Metaphors Versioning Group Annotation

The post-it and stick-on metaphors

Post-it

Stick-on

The mask metaphor for versioning

Example

A + B

Slide A Slide B Slide A+B

Z + X Z + X

+ =

Awareness for coordination

Level of participation (Participameter) Density of contributions Impact of ideas (Impactmeter) Level of maturity Level of conflict Information and time of posting Planning conformity

Participameter

ItemRead

Item Known but not Read

Item not Read

Participameter Implementation

Total percentage per visited contributions, observations of elements in the pre-meeting.

It allows to come back to the element that originated it.

Details of the percentages of each

element that comes from a specific contribution.

Level of completion

Common Workspace in CEPE

CEPE - Dealing with uncertainty

Group Awareness

Conclusions

CSCW is very active research area with many open problems

CSCW is a multi-disciplinary area Interfaces for groups is new

solutions evaluation

Opportunities Can be a motivation for cooperation

Development ConsortiumProposal

Marcos R.S. Borges

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

José A. Pino

Universidad de Chile

Research Group - Chord

2 members of staff + 1 post doc 4 + 2 * 1/2 Ph.D. Students 12 M.Sc. Students On-going Work

Groupware and Software Engineering Participatory approach to BP modeling SISCO - Meeting Preparation Post-meeting support Team Works - Support for teams Cooperative Learning

Research Group - Uchile

3 members of staff 1 Ph.D. Student 4 M.Sc. Students On-going Work

Participatory approach to BP modeling SISCO - Meeting Preparation Cooperative Learning

Uchile + UFRJ

CLEI Cyted - RITOS SISCO REPARTE Bi-lateral Cooperation

Joint research activities Publications Exchange of Students

The Cyted Style Cooperation

Networks Put people in touch

Academic Projects Goals and Results

Projects with the industry (innovation) Prototypes and Products

76 networks, 95 research projects 166 innovation projects

Cooperation Results

scientific publications

theses

courses

didactic material

scientific events

industrial projects andpatents

Institution X

Institution Y

Institution Z

ideal result

Cooperation Activities

mobility of faculty membersand students

participation/organization ofscientific events

interchange of students

dissemination of information

organization of courses

development ofresearch/industrial projects

CA Framework

mobility of facultymembers and

students

particip./organiz. ofscientific events

dissemination ofinformation

organization ofcourses

interchange ofstudents

development ofresearch/industrial

projects

CR Framework

scientific publications

theses

courses

didactic material

scientific events

industrial projectsand patents

CYTED CA/CR Framework

mobility of facultymembers and students

participation/organizationof scientific events

dissemination ofinformation

organization of courses

interchange of students

development ofresearch/industrial

projects

Networks

Research Projects

Conclusion

Goals HCI Community

Actions ?

Measurements ?