Gross, Tom2020-06-062020-06-06201341487http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-013-9190-xhttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3910Significant progress has been made in awareness research in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work over the last 25 years. This survey addresses awareness and effortless coordination—that is, how a mutual understanding in distributed teams can be gained and maintained, while still keeping the team members’ coordination efforts to a minimum. I characterise the origins of awareness and its ethnographically-informed and the technology-oriented roots, and discuss the notion of awareness. I review technical solutions for awareness support—both in applications as seen by users, and in base technology as seen by developers. Design tensions in awareness research and solutions are identified. A discussion contrasts awareness as seen from a users’ activity and effort perspective versus awareness as seen from a systems’ support and automation perspective.awarenesscomputer-supported cooperative workcoordinationhistorysurveyText/Journal Article10.1007/s10606-013-9190-x1573-7551