Meeting Notes for 10/18/2005

• We demoed SubEthaEdit again, illustrating different behaviors for group members not in attendance from the preceding week.
• Tack ran through a paper: Awareness and Coordination in Shared Workspaces
  • Treated the idea of "awareness" as the key motivation behind the design of a collaborative editor
  • A study of ShrEdit was described loosely (detailed additionally in a separate paper)
  • Roles in the editing environment were fluid; moving from editing to watching to creating content
  • According to studies described in the paper, many features like "follow" tend to be ignored
  • The paper cited audio communication as an effective method to establish awareness.
• The Awareness paper led to several additional research leads. Several volunteered to do research on each of these.
  • the dOPT synchronization algorithm
  • Quilt, a collaborative editor
  • PREP, another editor
  • GROVE, another editor

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