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This paper describes F@ (read as “fat”), our innovative framework of group awareness, which aims to extend our understanding of group awareness and help designers develop awareness mechanisms. First, the abstract level of F@ identifies four awareness schools, including conversational awareness, workspace awareness, contextual awareness and self-awareness. Then, the concrete level of F@ presents some fundamental time-related properties of these four awareness schools using temporal logic expressions. The paper also illustrates examples of how F@ can be applied to the design of awareness mechanisms.
This research was supported by Smart Internet Technology CRC (SITCRC), Australia.
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Tran, M.H., Yang, Y., Raikundalia, G.K. (2006). F@: A Framework of Group Awareness in Synchronous Distributed Groupware. In: Zhou, X., Li, J., Shen, H.T., Kitsuregawa, M., Zhang, Y. (eds) Frontiers of WWW Research and Development - APWeb 2006. APWeb 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3841. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11610113_41
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