Configuring awareness
| Document type: | Journal Articles |
|---|---|
| Article type: | Original article |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Christian Heath, Marcus Sanchez Svensson, Jon Hindmarsh, Paul Luff, Dirk vom Lehn |
| Title: | Configuring awareness |
| Journal: | Computer Supported Cooperative Work |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 3-4 |
| Pagination: | 317-347 |
| ISSN: | 0925-9724 |
| Publisher: | Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| City: | Netherlands |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Engineering - Dept. of Interaction and System Design (Sektionen för teknik – adv. för interaktion och systemdesign) School of Engineering S- 372 25 Ronneby +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.tek.bth.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | msn@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | The concept of awareness has become of increasing importance to both social and technical research in CSCW. The concept remains however relatively unexplored, and we still have little understanding of the ways in which people produce and sustain ‘awareness’ in and through social interaction with others. In this paper, we focus on a particular aspect of awareness, the ways in which participants design activities to have others unobtrusively notice and discover, actions and events, which might otherwise pass unnoticed. We consider for example how participants render visible selective aspects of their activities, how they encourage others to notice features of the local milieu, and how they encourage others to become sensitive to particular events. We draw examples from different workplaces, primarily centres of coordination; organisational environments which rest upon the participants’ abilities to delicately interweave a complex array of highly contingent, yet interdependent activities. |
| Subject: | Human Work Science\Computer Supported Cooperative Work Computer Science\Computersystems |
| Keywords: | awareness, centres of coordination, selective aspects |
