Requirements and Guidelines for the Design of Team Awareness Systems

This paper presents a set of guidelines for the design of multi-user awareness systems. In a first step, general requirements for team awareness systems are analyzed. In the second part of the paper, the identified requirements are aggregated and transformed into concrete design guidelines for the development of team awareness systems.

Authors:

• Carsten Röcker

Keywords:

• User Interface Design
• Awareness Systems
• User- Centered Design
• Human Factors.

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