Locative Media Terms

A few terms from Nicolas Nova‘s Locative Media: a literature review:
Awarness: the understanding of other’s person’s interaction with a shared workspace.
The awarness tool: The lack of information about the geographically-dispersed partners is addressed by providing users with tools that try to “recreate the information landscape of a real-world landscape
Locative media: every information about the physical location as well as other contextual cues. It can be decomposed into three awarness components: presence, location and direction.

Physical environment refers ta all the physical variables like location (absolute or relative) as well as conditions (e.g. light, temperature) or infrastructure (surrounding resources for communication, computation, task performance).
Human factor related context is structured into: information about the user, the user’s social environment and the user’s tasks.
Research on collaboration suggests that this cost has an important impact on how partners build a shared understanding of a situation when they have to work together.
Synchronous awarness: information about the present
Asynchronous awarness: information about the past
IPAD (Inter-Personal Awarness Device): the devices that can support this kind of awarness.
Spatial assumptions foster multiple levels of knowledge mutuality