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The AWARE architecture: supporting context-mediated social awareness in mobile cooperation

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Jakob E. Bardram,

Thomas R. HansenAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Pages 192 - 201

https://doi.org/10.1145/1031607.1031639

Published: 06 November 2004 Publication History

Abstract

Maintaining social awareness of the working context of fellow co-workers is crucial to successful cooperation. For mobile, non co-located workers, however, this social awareness is hard to maintain. In this paper we present the concept of <i>Context-Mediated Social Awareness</i> to denote how context-aware computing can be used to facilitate social awareness. We illustrate the concept in a case study of mobile collaboration in a hospital and present the `AwarePhone', which is designed to support context-mediated social awareness among hospital clinicians. Based on this conceptual and empirical basis, the paper presents the AWARE architecture, which is a generic platform for supporting context-mediated social awareness.

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