ITR/PE(IIS): Activity Awareness in Computer-Supported Collaboration

协同工作的人们必须建立并保持对彼此意图、行动和结果的意识。理解意识在计算机支持的协同工作（CSCW）中的作用，并开发有效的软件工具来支持意识，是CSCW系统未来成功的关键。该项目将开发和评估一套意识工具，以支持协作科学学习中的协调规划、行动和结果分析。以课堂为基础的实地研究将与一系列实验室调查相协调，以从实地研究的范围和生态有效性以及实验室研究的分析重点和控制中受益。实验室研究将采用任务模拟方法，包括使用来自交际社会心理学的同盟参与者。一个关键的科学目标是调查和发展活动意识的概念，即在复杂和长期任务中支持团队绩效的项目工作意识。活动意识建立在先前对社会意识（一个人的合作者的存在）和行动意识（合作者正在做什么或他们最近做了什么）的研究之上。开发活动意识的概念可以进一步整合意识研究和工具支持。

People working collaboratively must establish and maintain awareness of one another's intentions, actions, and results. Understanding the role of awareness in computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) and developing effective software tools to support awareness are keys to the future success of CSCW systems. This project will develop and evaluate a suite of awareness tools to support coordinated planning, action, and outcome analysis in collaborative science learning. Classroom-based field studies will be coordinated with a series of laboratory investigations, to benefit from both the scope and ecological validity of a field study and the analytical focus and control of laboratory studies. Laboratory studies will adapt task simulation methods, including the use of confederate participants, from the social psychology of communication. A key scientific objective is to investigate and develop the notion of activity awareness, the awareness of project work that supports group performance in complex and long-term tasks. Activity awareness builds upon prior research on social awareness (of the presence of one's collaborators) and action awareness (of what collaborators are doing or what they have recently done). Developing a concept of activity awareness can further integrate awareness research and tool support.