Development and Evaluation of Augmented Object Prototypes for Notifications in Collaborative Writing Environments

TítuloDevelopment and Evaluation of Augmented Object Prototypes for Notifications in Collaborative Writing Environments
Tipo de publicaciónCapítulo de libro
Año de publicación
2016
Autores
Jose A. Brenes
Gustavo López
Luis A. Guerrero
Isabel L. Nunes
Book Title
Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions
Volumen
497
Número de páginas
301–312
Editorial
Springer International Publishing
Ciudad
Cham
Número ISBN
978-3-319-41956-5
URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41956-5_27
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-41956-5_27
Palabras clave
Augmented Objects
Collaborative writing environment
Notification system
System interaction
System interfaces
Ubiquitous Computing
Resumen

In Ubiquitous Computing, augmented objects refer to those elements of the real world which have been provided with computational capabilities to meet a specific need. Meanwhile, Collaborative Writing Environments (CWE) allow groups of people to work together and increase the chances of success and share knowledge when they are working on shared documents. An extremely important aspect in CWEs is notification mechanisms as these are essential to provide users awareness about the collaborative work they are doing. In this paper, we describe a set of augmented objects created to support the notification in CWEs; these objects can improve the way in which the notifications are delivered to users, according to the writing strategy defined by the collaboration team.