Social networks play an essential role in learning environments as a key channel for
knowledge sharing and students' support. In distributed learning communities, knowledge …

To increase communication and collaboration opportunities, members of a community must
be aware of the social networks that exist within that community. This paper describes a …

Mutual awareness has been a focus point of research in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI)
and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) since the early 1990s. At its essence …

This chapter discusses the design of awareness systems, whose main function is a social
one, namely, to support social communication, mediated social interactions and eventually …

Creativity is the cornerstone of collaborative scientific work. As distributed collaboration is
becoming an increasingly dominant model of creative scientific work that goes on in our …

As people engage in ordinary activities, they typically maintain awareness of other people
around them. Awareness systems, broadly defined, are intended to help people construct …

When creativity is taken as a long-term, complex, and collaborative activity, support for
awareness is required for group members to monitor the development of ideas, track how …

In this chapter we introduce and explore the notion of “intentionally enriched awareness”.
Intentional enrichment refers to the process of actively engaging users in the awareness …

En un contexto de I+ D+ i (investigación+ desarrollo+ innovación), diversos estudios
apuntan a la existencia de una fuerte relación entre comunicación y resultados, mostrando …

Human-computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and
implementation of interactive computing systems for human use Human–computer …