Checking network configuration requirements

The checking network configuration requirements area has many goals including the exploration of the necessary means to accomplish effective awareness in group work. One of the means used in this exploration is the search for new awareness devices
that provide information on the participants’ actions and the sense of presence during group work.

The devices used to provide awareness information in allow the participants to obtain knowledge of the group activities to know what happened, what is happening and what will happen, and also to provide details about the work and the group. However, the current awareness devices have restrictions to accomplish effective awareness and are not able to inform the exact place where the participants’ focus of attention is during group work. The restrictions include the need of explicit actions to provide awareness, the effort required to obtain awareness and the need to occupy additional space of the shared workspace.