The [email protected] Framework For Designing Awareness Mechanisms in Instant Messaging
Keywords:
OZCHI, HCI, awareness support, empirical, framework
Abstract
This paper presents our research on awareness support in Instant Messaging (IM). The paper starts with a brief overview of an empirical study of IM, using an online survey and face-to-face interviews to identify user needs for awareness support. The study identified a need for supporting four aspects of awareness—awareness of multiple concurrent conversations, conversational awareness, presence awareness of a group conversation, and visibility of moment-to-moment listeners and viewers. Based on the empirical study and existing research on awareness, we have developed the [email protected] (read as “fat”) framework of awareness. [email protected] comprises of an abstract level and a concrete level. The former level includes an in-depth description of various awareness aspects in IM, whilst the latter level utilises temporal logic to formalise fundamental time-related awareness aspects. [email protected] helps developers gain a better understanding of awareness and thereby design usable mechanisms to support awareness. Applying [email protected], we have designed several mechanisms to support various aspect of awareness in IM.
Published
2006-05-01
How to Cite
Tran, M. H., Yang, Y., & Raikundalia, G. (2006). The [email protected] Framework For Designing Awareness Mechanisms in Instant Messaging. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v13i2.46
Section
Selected Papers from the Australian Conf on Human Computer Interaction (OZCHI)
Copyright (c) 2006 Minh Hong Tran, Yun Yang, Gitesh Raikundalia

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