TY - JOUR
T1 - Study and analysis of workspace awareness in cdebate
T2 - A groupware application for collaborative debates
AU - Romero-Salcedo, Manuel
AU - Osuna-Gómez, Cesar A.
AU - Sheremetov, Leonid
AU - Villa, Luis
AU - Morales, Carlos
AU - Rocha, Luis
AU - Chi, Manuel
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by grants from CONACYT—Mexico within the J32043-A project and Mexican Petroleum Institute within the project D.00006 (Distributed Intelligent Computing). Special thanks go to the students from the Engineering Faculty of the Guadalajara Autonomous University and from the IMP for their helpful participation in this research work. We also gratefully acknowledge the help of Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa and Donald Day, who carefully read and commented on this paper. Our special thanks go to Dr Phillip J. Gerrish for his comments and English corrections on this paper. Finally, Manuel Romero-Salcedo thanks Silvia Milene Acosta Reyes for her invaluable help, permanent support and constant encouragements, and for being part of his efforts and dreams.
PY - 2004/8
Y1 - 2004/8
N2 - In this paper, we study the workspace awareness in a groupware application allowing the development of an information task through collaborative debates. The application, called CDebate, is based on the APRI (Action-Perception- Reflection-Intention) model, which establishes a cognitive and motor states organization that occurs when humans are interacting with one another in a constructivist and collaborative learning situation. In CDebate, the interactions among students occur through a graphical language that reflects the mental operations appropriate for a debate. As an evaluation method, a conceptual framework, which provides a set of elements that give information about the up-to-the-moment knowledge about participants' location and actions, is used. The results of this study allow us to confirm that group awareness information, supported through a graphical language and a window showing the participants' presence (informal awareness), were sufficient for success in the collaborative learning situation. This experience could be useful for interface designers of groupware applications, in particular for collaborative debate interfaces.
AB - In this paper, we study the workspace awareness in a groupware application allowing the development of an information task through collaborative debates. The application, called CDebate, is based on the APRI (Action-Perception- Reflection-Intention) model, which establishes a cognitive and motor states organization that occurs when humans are interacting with one another in a constructivist and collaborative learning situation. In CDebate, the interactions among students occur through a graphical language that reflects the mental operations appropriate for a debate. As an evaluation method, a conceptual framework, which provides a set of elements that give information about the up-to-the-moment knowledge about participants' location and actions, is used. The results of this study allow us to confirm that group awareness information, supported through a graphical language and a window showing the participants' presence (informal awareness), were sufficient for success in the collaborative learning situation. This experience could be useful for interface designers of groupware applications, in particular for collaborative debate interfaces.
KW - APRI
KW - CSCL
KW - Collaborative debate
KW - Group awareness
KW - Groupware interface
KW - Workspace awareness
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U2 - 10.1016/j.intcom.2004.07.004
DO - 10.1016/j.intcom.2004.07.004
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:6344221456
SN - 0953-5438
VL - 16
SP - 657
EP - 681
JO - Interacting with Computers
JF - Interacting with Computers
IS - 4
ER -