METHOD AND SOFTWARE FOR SUPPORTING IMPROVED AWARENESS OF AND COLLABORATION AMONG USERS INVOLVED IN A TASK

The present invention discloses methods for improving awareness of the status of a task, and for improving collaboration among users involved in a task. Methods are provided in which activity data is displayed simultaneously in two separate regions of a screen display. A first region can contain a list of users in association with an activity most recently performed by each user. A second region can contain a list of data objects in association with an activity most recently performed on each of the data objects. Collaboration tools can be accessible through the list of users or the list of data objects.