Awareness tool

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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:

• WYSIYITYS: 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 WYSIYITYS.

References

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