DocumentCode :
260489
Title :
Enhancing group activities with multidimensional communication in collaborative workspace
Author :
Musa, Norzilah ; Abidin, Siti Z. Z. ; Omar, Nasiroh
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Univ. Teknol. MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
fYear :
2014
fDate :
2-4 Sept. 2014
Firstpage :
105
Lastpage :
110
Abstract :
In collaborative workspaces, users of a group communicate with other group members through information artefacts in their activities. While they are working, they can create additional small groups for inter and intra communications based on their preferences. Hence, at any specific time, a collaborative user is associated with more than one group and activity for single and multi-dimensional communication. The relationships between users, groups and activities are very complex and become a barrier to any group activities in having seamless communications. In this paper, we identify important features for single dimension and multi-dimensional communications in five domains of collaborative applications. Then, we analyze the important factors for designing mechanism to support the multi-dimensional communication based on user preference. The findings emphasize eight crucial parameters for a multi-dimensional communication in collaborative workspaces. Thus, the user-based multi-dimensional communication is significant in promoting flexible coordinating mechanism for group activities.
Keywords :
groupware; collaborative user; collaborative workspace; designing mechanism; flexible coordinating mechanism; group activities; group members; information artefacts; multidimensional communication; multidimensional communications; seamless communications; user preference; Business; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Communications technology; Computers; Media; Software; collaborative workspace; design consideration; group activity; multi-dimensional communication; single-dimension communication;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer, Communications, and Control Technology (I4CT), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Langkawi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4556-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/I4CT.2014.6914156
Filename :
6914156
Link To Document :
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