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Publication summary
Author(s): Michelle Potts Steves and E.L. Morse
Publication date: August 2000
Citation: Michelle Potts Steves and E.L. Morse: "CollabLogger: A Tool for Visualizing Groups at Work," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, August, 2000.
Key words: collaboration environments, exploratory sequential data analysis, software usability, visualization
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Abstract:
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The CollabLogger is a visual tool that has been developed to
support usability analyses of human-computer interaction in a team
environment. The participants in the computer-mediated activity were
engaged in a small-scale manufacturing testbed project. Interactions of the
group were mediated by Teamwave Workplace and the members
performed both synchronous and asynchronous activities depending
on their availability, project requirements, and serendipity due to
accidental meetings in the collaborative space. The software was
instrumented to log users' interactions with the system and each
other. The CollabLogger addresses the problem of helping
investigators analyze the volumes of log data that groupware tools
can generate. Visual tools are powerful when large amounts of
diverse data present themselves. The place-based collaboration
environment offered by Teamwave Workplace provided a level of
organization that allowed us to create a visual interface with which
to perform exploratory sequential data analysis.
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