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A proposal of a method to assess awareness support is made. This proposal is intended for the use of collaborative applications developers at any time during development. It consists of a checklist. It is made with the inclusion of design elements obtained by the analysis of Quality Assurance ideas applied to collaborative systems. The proposal is illustrated with its use in two cases.
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Antunes, P., Sapateiro, C., Pino, J.A., Herskovic, V., Ochoa, S.F. (2010). Awareness Checklist: Reviewing the Quality of Awareness Support in Collaborative Applications. In: Kolfschoten, G., Herrmann, T., Lukosch, S. (eds) Collaboration and Technology. CRIWG 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15714-1_16
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