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Awareness of other coworkers’ activities is critical for collaborative software development. However, high-level information has not been studied extensively. This paper introduces the concept of high-level awareness. To explore sources of such information, a case study on tag use in an open source project is conducted. Evidence of tags supporting high-level awareness is found, and tag use patterns and semantics are discussed.
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Chen, C., Zhang, K., Itoh, T. (2012). Empirical Evidence of Tags Supporting High-Level Awareness. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7467. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32609-7_13
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