Workspaces became apparently disorganized, with incomplete and obsolete content, yet participants reported no difficulty using them to collaborate¶
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q2 i? Final workspaces appeared complex and messy to outside observers, but participants navigated them without difficulty. → Nathan Dwyer & Daniel D. Suthers 2006
q2 i? Obsolete annotations and unrecorded relationship meanings cluttered the artifact while partners successfully inferred intended meanings. → Nathan Dwyer & Daniel D. Suthers 2006 (2)
Evidence¶
Nathan Dwyer & Daniel D. Suthers 2006¶
Nathan Dwyer & Daniel D. Suthers. (2006). Consistent practices in artifact-mediated collaboration. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 1: 481–511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-006-9001-1
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In all sessions the workspaces became "extremely disorganized" collections with incomplete and obsolete content, yet "the participants reported no difficulty using them to collaborate" and said the workspace adequately supported their exchanges.
"These artifacts appear extremely disorganized, and contain a great deal of incomplete and obsolete content . Nonetheless, the participants reported no difficulty using them to collaborate"
Nathan Dwyer & Daniel D. Suthers 2006 (2)¶
Nathan Dwyer & Daniel D. Suthers. (2006). Consistent practices in artifact-mediated collaboration. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning 1: 481–511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-006-9001-1
q2 · i? · qualitative · r2
Participants indicated relationships by pointing, arrows or proximity but "the nature of the relationship was very rarely specified or recorded," leaving interpretation to the partner; this seemed consistently successful but left important information unrecorded.
"Some relationship was indicated in all of these cases, but the nature of the relationship was very rarely specified or recorded."
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Workspaces became apparently disorganized, with incomplete and obsolete content, yet participants reported no difficulty using them to collaborate |
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Workspaces became apparently disorganized, with incomplete and obsolete content, yet participants reported no difficulty using them to collaborate |
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