Designing and deploying an information awareness interface
Published 16 November 2002
J. J. Cadiz, Gina Venolia, Gavin Jancke, Anoop Gupta
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Sideshow is described, a peripheral awareness interface that was rapidly adopted by thousands of people in the authors' company and provides regularly updated peripheral awareness of a broad range of information from virtually any accessible web site or database.
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The concept of awareness has received increasing attention over the past several CSCW conferences. Although many awareness interfaces have been designed and studied, most have been limited deployments of research prototypes. In this paper we describe Sideshow, a peripheral awareness interface that was rapidly adopted by thousands of people in our company. Sideshow provides regularly updated peripheral awareness of a broad range of information from virtually any accessible web site or database. We discuss Sideshow's design and the experience of refining and redesigning the interface based on feedback from a rapidly expanding user community.
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Computer ScienceDecision Sciences
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