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High-speed coordination in groupware

dc.contributor.advisorGutwin, Carlen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberDinh, Anh vanen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberDeters, Ralphen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMandryk, Reganen_US
dc.creatorBarjawi, Mutasemen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-09T15:37:36Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-04T05:08:02Z
dc.date.available2010-11-18T08:00:00Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-01-04T05:08:02Z
dc.date.created2009-11en_US
dc.date.issued2009-11en_US
dc.date.submittedNovember 2009en_US
dc.description.abstractCoordination is important in groupware because it helps users collaborate efficiently. However, groupware systems in which activities occur at a faster pace need faster coordination in order to keep up with the speed of the activity. Faster coordination is especially needed when actions are dependent on one another (i.e., they are tightly-coupled) and when each user can see and interact with other users’ actions as they occur (i.e., real time). There is little information available about this type of fast coordination (also named high-speed coordination or HSC) in groupware. In this thesis, I addressed this problem by providing a body of principles and information about high-speed coordination. This solution was achieved by creating a groupware game called RTChess and then conducting an exploratory evaluation in which high-speed coordination was investigated. The results of this evaluation show that there were small amounts of high-speed coordination in the game and that high-speed coordination was difficult to achieve. In addition, HSC was affected by five main characteristics of the groupware environment: user experience, level of awareness of the partner’s interactions, communication between partners, number of dependencies that affect the user’s interactions, and pace of activities in the system.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-11092009-153736en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectFast Activityen_US
dc.subjectHigh Speed Coordinationen_US
dc.subjectReal-Time Groupwareen_US
dc.subjectTight Couplingen_US
dc.subjectCoordinationen_US
dc.titleHigh-speed coordination in groupwareen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentComputer Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewanen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (M.Sc.)en_US

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