Informed Opportunism as Strategy: Supporting Coordination in Distributed Collaborative Writing

Beck, Eevi E.; Bellotti, Victoria

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-2094-4_16

Cited by 27 publications

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“…Beck and Bellotti (1993) conducted interviews, surveys, and case studies to analyze the coauthoring process. They concluded that the nature of a group is dynamic.…”

Section: Group (Collaborative) Writing In the Classroommentioning

confidence: 99%

Design Alternatives for a MediaWiki to Support Collaborative Writing

Kasemvilas¹,

Olfman²

2009

JIITO

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Web 2.0 technologies are having a considerable influence on the learning industry. Constructivist learning processes, such as collaborative writing, have emerged as a result of the development of Web 2.0 technologies. We define the term "mandatory collaborative writing" to describe a writing task where the group has a firm deadline. This article focuses on how a wiki can fully support mandatory group writing. The motivation of this design science research study emerges from a graduate Knowledge Management class assignment to write a wiki book. The main finding shows that the wiki instance used for the project, MediaWiki, could better facilitate the collaborative writing process with a set of extensions that support discussion and project management. We outline designs for these processes: 1) a discussion process that changes the way users discuss content on a wiki page and increases group awareness; and 2) a project management process that increases awareness of the status of each component of the writing project and provides an overall summary of the project. A demonstration of the principles to a focus group provided a basic proof of the validity of this design. The significant contributions of this study are these processes, which can facilitate group writing and constructivist learning processes. Contributions of the study to several streams of research are discussed.

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“…Beck and Bellotti (1993) conducted interviews, surveys, and case studies to analyze the coauthoring process. They concluded that the nature of a group is dynamic.…”

Section: Group (Collaborative) Writing In the Classroommentioning

confidence: 99%

Design Alternatives for a MediaWiki to Support Collaborative Writing

Kasemvilas¹,

Olfman²

2009

JIITO

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“…Typical of this reticence are claims to offer only 'insights' , 'directions' (Filippi & Thereau, 1993), 'input' (Grønbaek et al, 1992), 'suggestions' , 'implications' (Beck & Bellotti, 1993), and 'options' (Egger & Wagner, 1993) for design. There is a strong impetus to provide recommendations, even when couched in these terms.…”

Section: Work Studies and General Design Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They discuss different types of technological innovation, such as voice recognition, as an example of misinformed design and instead recommend adoption of a pen-based, handwriting recognition system. Beck and Bellotti (1993) take the approach of demonstrating the disparity between flexible low tech solutions and constraints imposed by new technologies by explicitly referring to design features of available systems for collaborative writing. This approach is also taken by Plowman (forthcoming) in her discussion of the interfunctionality of talking and writing.…”

Section: Work Studies and General Design Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Are Workplace Studies For?

Plowman

Rogers

Ramage

1995

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work ECSCW ’95

125

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Abstract:We have considered the role of workplace studies from the CSCW literature which are intended to inform system design and implementation. We present a critique of these studies, categorised according to which phase of the design process they most inform, and discuss the tensions between providing explanatory accounts and usable design recommendations, the pressures on fieldworkers to provide both, the purposes different approaches serve, and the transition from fieldwork to system design.

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“…In real-time collaborative editing systems, multiple users are allowed to concurrently edit any part of the document simultaneously. REDUCE [23] and SASSE [2] are good examples for real-time collaborative systems.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(1) s(O i ) = s(O j ) = k, and gt k (O i )< gt k (O j ); (2) this site exited successfully during the last session. Then, the state changes from finish into join and the site obtains the RDS from other sites, the state changes from join into run after the site execute operations associated with RDS.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%