ctor perspectives.

Most often, naturally, people get information about others' locations, activities, and
intentions related to the tasks within a shared physical workspace, or a "virtual" space within which
people work remotely. This kind of informal knowledge, or awareness, can enable people to work
together more effectively (Kraut, Egido et al. 1990; Gutwin and Greenberg 1996). Co-operative systems
are interactive computer-based systems that support coordinated team efforts towards completion of
joint tasks. The process of work involves the making public of activities to allow groups to co-ordinate
their endeavours. This coordination may be formal or informal and may or may not involve some form of
technical mediation. For example, in the cubic office area, we are aware of each other's activity through
various ways. We can, for instance, get certain awareness of other people which are geographically
distributed either through direct phone calls or the voices people are talking. In a traditional working
flow in the factories, workers are aware of their working situation- through the piles of pending tasks.
That is the real situation in our life. This requires that the maintaining certain levels of situational
awareness by keeping everyone adequately informed (Norman 1993). The concepts of awareness involve
the states of information among group people but also dynamic processes of personal perception and
action. Here basic