CAREER: Awareness Mechanisms for Next Generation Virtual Collocation

随着移动和无处不在的技术越来越多地被用于随时随地实现协作，分布式工作的性质正在发生变化。分布式团队合作的成功取决于合作伙伴交流基本社会和任务信息的能力，这些信息称为意识信息。因此，下一代移动和无处不在技术的设计需要基于对社会和任务需求的深刻理解。这个项目的目的是调查在分布式工作期间，随着人们环境的变化，技术如何支持意识需求。将对物理配置和分布式协作进行经验研究，以开发一个理论框架，说明如何在这些不同的环境中传达和利用意识信息。在分布式工作普遍存在的领域选择了五个外地地点：空间任务设计、航空航天、软件开发、微处理器开发和磁盘存储技术。将根据实地研究中获得的要求开发原型意识机制。将在实地和实验室对这些技术进行评估，以测试在分布式工作中如何利用提高认识信息的理论框架。这项研究将被纳入一个研究生学习计划，重点是计算机支持的协作工作和人机交互。

The nature of distributed work is changing as mobile and ubiquitous technologies are being used increasingly to enable collaboration anywhere, anytime. The success of distributed teamwork depends on the ability of collaborating partners to communicate essential social and task information, referred to as awareness information. Thus, the design of next generation mobile and ubiquitous technologies need to be based on a deep understanding of social and task requirements. The purpose of this project is to investigate how technology can support awareness requirements as people's environments change during distributed work. Empirical studies of physically collocated and distributed collaboration will be done to develop a theoretical framework for how awareness information is conveyed and utilized in these different settings. Five field sites have been selected in domains where distributed work is commonplace: space mission design, aerospace, software development, microprocessor development, and disk storage technologies. Prototype awareness mechanisms will be developed based on the requirements obtained in the field studies. These technologies will be evaluated both in the field and the laboratory to test the theoretical framework of how awareness information is utilized in distributed work. This research will be integrated into a graduate study program focused on computer-supported collaborative work and human-computer interaction.