A new collaborative awareness model and its application

Collaborative awareness (CA) is the base of natural interaction. After years of research, there is still not a clear overall picture of CA in CSCW community. Many different viewpoints are mixed up and research on CA is chaos. In particular, designers don't know how to articulate CA information into collaborative systems. The issue is that there is no appropriate CA reference model. To solve the problem, in this paper, we analyze related concepts and technologies about CA, propose a 3-dimension CA Model (3 DC AM), and then design CA information in Virtual Design Center (VDC) according to the model. The experience indicates that the model can clarify the cognition on CA, and also it can be used to direct embedding CA information into groupware.