Visualization and filtering awareness information in mobile groupware: An action research approach

This paper presents a cycle of action research conducted to investigate techniques for visualization and filtering of awareness information in a mobile collaborative game titled Warming Up The Brain. This study aims to identify the awareness information that should be presented to the users as well as how to arrange the awareness information in the mobile devices, considering its small screen size. In order to avoid problems such as information overload and information intrusiveness, the awareness information were filtered based on the group data. The game was used by 30 players, divided in 7 rounds. The usability evaluation show that the awareness information were well absorbed by users.