Abstract
Issues of notification and awareness have become increasingly important in CSCW. Notification servers provide a notable mechanism to maintain shared state information of any synchronous or asynchronous groupware system. A taxonomy of the design space for notification servers is presented, based on theoretical results from status-event analysis. This generates a framework and vocabulary to compare and discuss different notification mechanisms to improve design. The paper shows that notification servers are often ideally placed to support impedance matching to give an appropriate pace of feedthrough to the user by allowing them to see changes to shared objects in a timely manner.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 227-235 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 1998 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1998 7th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW'98 - Seattle, WA, USA Duration: 14 Nov 1998 → 18 Nov 1998 |
Conference
| Conference | Proceedings of the 1998 7th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW'98 |
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| City | Seattle, WA, USA |
| Period | 14/11/98 → 18/11/98 |