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In a collaborative system in which a body of shared data may be accessed by more than one user, a small-scale representation of the body of shared data displayed to one user includes an indication of the activities of other users. A user that is not viewing the shared data at full scale can thus obt

In a collaborative system in which a body of shared data may be accessed by more than one user, a small-scale representation of the body of shared data displayed to one user includes an indication of the activities of other users. A user that is not viewing the shared data at full scale can thus obtain information about the activities of other users from a small-scale representation. The small-scale representation can indicate the type of activity, the extent or rate of changes in the shared data, the other users viewing the full-scale representation, or can show the shared data in shrunken form, indicating the parts that have been changed. The extent or rate of changes can be indicated with a quantitative indicator such as a gauge.

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A method of operating a collaborative system that includes a plurality of workstations each having a respective display and a respective user input device, the collaborative system further including a set of bodies of shared data, each of the workstations being connected to access the bodies of shar

A method of operating a collaborative system that includes a plurality of workstations each having a respective display and a respective user input device, the collaborative system further including a set of bodies of shared data, each of the workstations being connected to access the bodies of shared data for presentation of a respective full-scale representation of any of the bodies of shared data on the respective display, the respective full-scale representation of any of the bodies of shared data occupying a substantial part of the respective display, the collaborative system further being for presenting the respective full-scale representations of any of the bodies of shared data concurrently on the respective displays of more than one of the workstations, the method comprising: presenting on the respective display of a first one of the workstations a set of small-scale representations, each small-scale representation representing a respective one of the bodies of shared data, each small-scale representation occupying a small part of the first workstation\s respective display, a first one of the set of small-scale representations representing a first one of the bodies of shared data; presenting on the respective display of a second one of the workstations the respective full-scale representation of the first body of shared data; and upon receiving a signal requesting activity affecting the first body of shared data from the respective user input device of the second workstation, presenting in the first small-scale representation an indication of the activity at the second workstation.