METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ACTIVITY-CENTRIC AWARENESS IN A VIRTUAL COLLABORATION SPACE WITH PERSONALIZED DIFFERENTIAL AWARENESS USER INTERFACE REPRESENTATIONS

摘要

A system for providing an activity-centric collaboration space provides representations of the tasks that the team has planned, is engaged in, and has completed as a means of enhancing cross-team awareness and coordination. The system enables a user to explicitly indicate what task she is currently engaged in on behalf of the team, and makes this current task information available to other team members. A “tasks” view user interface component provides a shared view of all ongoing, planned, and completed tasks for a team. Information about team members' task assignments, and the ability to monitor team members' current tasks, may be used to manage potential interruptions caused by requests for instant messaging sessions and the like. Team members can explicitly establish interruption management policies indicating how task assignments and current tasks should be used to determine whether a communication attempt should be blocked or forwarded to a team member. Team space resources that are most important to an individual team member may also be identified, and changes made to those resources made more visually apparent and/or readily available to that user than changes to artifacts with which they are less concerned. Personalized differential awareness user interface representations may also be provided, and the associations that tasks establish between resources and team members also enables convenient determination of whether newly added or modified resources would be of interest to a particular user.