@article{10902/31731,
year = {2024},
month = {2},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/31731},
abstract = {Up to now, groupware has enjoyed a certain stability in terms of the users' technical requirements, being the awareness dimension one of its key services to provide usability and improve collaboration. Nonetheless, currently, groupware technologies are being stressed: on the one hand, the pandemic of COVID-19 has greatly driven the massive use of groupware tools to overcome physical distancing; on the other hand, the new digital worlds (with disruptive devices, changing paradigms, and growing productive needs) are introducing new collaboration settings. This, and the fact that software engineering methods are not paying enough attention to the awareness, makes us concentrate on facilitating its design. Thus, we have created a visual modeling technique, based on a conceptual framework, to be used by the developers of groupware systems to describe awareness requirements. This visual language, called the awareness description diagrams, has been validated in some experimental activities. The results obtained show that this is a valid technique in order tomodel the awareness support, that it is useful and understandable for groupware engineers, and that the visual representation is preferred to a more textual one in terms of expressiveness.},
organization = {This work was supported by the Direccion General Universidades, Investigacion e Innovación, Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, and the European Regional Development Fund under Grant SBPLY/21/180501/000244. The work of Rafael Duque was supported by the "Proyectos Puente 2021" from the Consejería de Universidades, Igualdad, Cultura y Deporte, Gobierno de Cantabria under Grant 21.VP50.64662.},
publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
publisher = {IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 2023, 54(1), 56-67},
title = {Modeling awareness requirements in groupware: From cards to diagrams},
author = {Bravo Santos, Crescencio and Duque Medina, Rafael and Molina, Ana Isabel and Gallardo, Jesús},
}