Mobile computing has allowed us to conceive software systems to support mobile
collaborative work in several business domains, like hospital work, emergency
response, and urban maintenance. A key design aspect to model these systems is
the representation of the computer-mediated interaction scenarios in which
collaboration among mobile workers takes place. The current literature does not
report surveys on modeling languages and notations potentially useful to
represent these interaction scenarios, nor indicates what capabilities should
have these representations to be useful for software designers. This article
presents a review of visual languages and notations that can be used to model
these interaction scenarios, establishes a set of capabilities these
representations should have, and evaluates the suitability of modeling
languages and notations to create these representations. The results of this
study help researchers identify opportunities to improve the current modeling
languages and notations, and also practitioners to select the most appropriate
ones to specify the computer-mediated interaction scenarios to be supported
with a mobile collaborative application.