Anticipative Awareness in a Groupware System

Current asynchronous collaborative tools support awareness of changes in an ­electronic workspace in two ways. Either they store and display a history of events that took place in the past (awareness of past events) or they allow users to register an interest in an event in the future they want to be notified about (awareness of future events). The future event can ideally be defined to encompass any combination of specific artifacts, specific activities, and specific members of a workspace. None of the groupware tools we analyzed, however, allows specifying actions to be carried out by workspace members until a date in the future and then automatically verifies and notifies whether they were performed within the deadline, late, or not at all.

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