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Portholes: supporting awareness in a distributed work group
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems table of contents
Monterey, California, United States
Pages: 541 - 547  
Year of Publication: 1992
ISBN:0-89791-513-5
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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
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ABSTRACT

We are investigating ways in which media space technologies can support distributed work groups through access to information that supports general awareness. Awareness involves knowing who is “around”, what activities are occurring, who is talking with whom; it provides a view of one another in the daily work environments. Awareness may lead to informal interactions, spontaneous connections, and the development of shared cultures—all important aspects of maintaining working relationships which are denied to groups distributed across multiple sites. The Portholes project, at Rank Xerox EuroPARC in Cambridge, England, and Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California, demonstrates that awareness can be supported across distance. A data network provides a shared database of image information that is regularly updated and available at all sites. Initial experiences of the system in use at EuroPARC and PARC suggest that Portholes both supports shared awareness and helps to build a “sense of community”.


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