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Awareness is an understanding of the activities of others, which provides a context for your own activity. An awaress tool scaffolds awareness.
== Defininition ==
 
[[Awareness]] is an understanding of the activities of others, which provides a context for your own activity. An awaress tool scaffolds awareness.
 
== Kinds of tools ==
 
There are several kinds:
 
=== WYSIWIS tools ===
 
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* WYSIWITYS: What you see is what I think you see" is a property that can help technology support realtime interaction between physically separated users. The WYSIWITYS property is a natural consequence of adhering to a physical world metaphor.
 
* WYSIWIS: What you see is what I see. This is more constrained symmetrical version of WYSIWITYS.
 
=== Portal tools ===
 
[[under construction]]
 
I will add some stuff we did in our [[C3MS]] projects.
You may in the mean time read the [[awareness]] article, that is much more complete - [[User:DSchneider|DSchneider]] 19:05, 12 May 2006 (MEST)
 
== References ==
 
 
Randall B. Smith (1992), What you see is what I think you see, ACM SIGCUE Outlook,21 (3), 18-23 [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=130898]
 
M. Stefik, D. Bobrow, S. Lanning, and D. Tatar, WYSIWIS revised: Early experiences w1th mu1ti-user Interfaces. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Dec. 3- 5,1986, Austin Texas, pp 276-290.
 
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Defininition

Awareness is an understanding of the activities of others, which provides a context for your own activity. An awaress tool scaffolds awareness.

Kinds of tools

There are several kinds:

WYSIWIS tools

under construction

  • WYSIWITYS: What you see is what I think you see" is a property that can help technology support realtime interaction between physically separated users. The WYSIWITYS property is a natural consequence of adhering to a physical world metaphor.
  • WYSIWIS: What you see is what I see. This is more constrained symmetrical version of WYSIWITYS.

Portal tools

under construction

I will add some stuff we did in our C3MS projects. You may in the mean time read the awareness article, that is much more complete - DSchneider 19:05, 12 May 2006 (MEST)

References

Randall B. Smith (1992), What you see is what I think you see, ACM SIGCUE Outlook,21 (3), 18-23 [1]

M. Stefik, D. Bobrow, S. Lanning, and D. Tatar, WYSIWIS revised: Early experiences w1th mu1ti-user Interfaces. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Dec. 3- 5,1986, Austin Texas, pp 276-290.