Awareness While Hunting in Groups

This research comes out of Umeå University in Sweden and does a good job of showing an atypical example of needing better group awareness. While many CSCW studies investigate people in highly controlled environments where some movement happens, this paper investigates a mobile group traveling over an extensive area through largely unknown terrain. Understanding how groups can coordinate and achieve goals in extremely heterogeneous and unpredictable environments is a great research area.

This paper makes a differentiation between two different types of coordination mechanisms:
1) Feedback (Responses to your own actions you get from people or objects)
2) Feedthrough (Information you infer based on the actions of others)

Exploring the concept of group interaction through action in a mobile context
Rikard Harr
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