Continuous awareness: a visual mobile approach

With the proliferation of globally distributed projects, there has been an urgent need for continuous coordination and continuous awareness support. Traditional desktop-based approaches are insufficient for the requirements of continuous awareness. Team Radar Mobile takes a visual mobile approach to continuous awareness by visualizing awareness information on mobile platforms. The concept of continuous awareness and its implementation on multiple platforms are discussed. An experiment has evaluated the visual mobile approach to continuous awareness, and validated the design principles of mobile visualization.

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