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Exploring awareness needs and information display preferences between coworkers

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A.J. Bernheim Brush,

Brian R. Meyers,

James Scott,

Gina VenoliaAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '09: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2091 - 2094

https://doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1519018

Published: 04 April 2009 Publication History

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Technology makes it possible to share many different types of information with coworkers. We conducted a large-scale survey (N=549) to better understand current sharing among coworkers, how people stay aware of collocated and remote coworkers, and whether their willingness to share different types of awareness information changes based on the location in which the information is displayed. Contrary to our expectations, the display location did not greatly affect what respondents were willing to share. Our results also suggest considerations for researchers building situated displays, as respondents had concerns about unintended viewers and encouraging people to visit their personal space when they were not present.

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Exploring awareness needs and information display preferences between coworkers
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
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2. Social and professional topics
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DOI:10.1145/1518701

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