1997, Atlanta, ACM Press, p. 51-58. The difficulty of maintaining awareness contributes to make remote collaboration very difficult. It is interesting to look at how the Web relates to awareness. A first perspective is to consider the Web simply as an implementation support. The notion of awareness is a very general one and different categories have already been identified.
Lack of awareness contributes to make remote collaboration very difficult.
But when people are not in the same physical space, they loose all these cues and are not able any more to judge what their peers are doing, nor even if they are present. For example, a continuous video link between two offices can give an impression to people in these rooms that they share a common space. Abstract Representation of Presence Supporting Mutual Awareness . Abstract representation of presence supporting mutual awareness Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 1997. It differs from our research in that it uses a single server to act as the interface to all the context available in an environment as opposed to our modular infrastructure.