Participant perspectives on collaboration
Repertoires of collaborative practice
NSF-funded researchers from Stanford and U. Washington have established a coordinated suite of studies on collaborative practices, and a new theoretical framework to describe what people learn about collaboration from engaging in collaborative efforts. The ‘Repertoires of Collaborative Practice’ framework describes the individual, interpersonal, contextual and community practices that are brought to collaborative activities. The group is investigating the conjecture that repertoires of collaborative practice develop through experience, and that collaborators may become differentially adept reflecting on them and at selecting which elements from their repertoires should be implemented in specific situations.
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Recent Publications
Barron, B., Martin, C. K., Mercier, E., Pea, R. D., Steinbock, D., Walter, S., Mertl, V. (2009). Repertoires of Collaborative Practice: Theoretical Introduction and background. In Repertoires of Collaborative Practice. Symposium conducted at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conference proceedings, Rhodes, Greece. (download pdf)
Martin, C. K. & Barron, B. (2009). Learning to collaborate through multimedia composing. In Repertoires of Collaborative Practice. Symposium conducted at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conference proceedings, Rhodes, Greece. (download pdf)
Mertl, V. (2009). “Don’t touch anything, it might break!”: Adolescent musicians’ accounts of collaboration and access to technologies seminal to their musical practice. In Repertoires of Collaborative Practice. Symposium conducted at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conference proceedings, Rhodes, Greece. (download pdf)
Steinbock, D. (2009). Production of collaborative practice in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In Repertoires of Collaborative Practice. Symposium conducted at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conference proceedings, Rhodes, Greece. (in press)
Walter, S. (2009). Collaboration in Massively Multiplayer Games. In Repertoires of Collaborative Practice. Symposium conducted at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conference proceedings, Rhodes, Greece. (download pdf)
Mercier, E.M., Tyson, K., Mertl, V., Barron, B. Herrenkohl. L., Nasir, N. & Pea, R. (2008, March) Repertoires of Collaborative Practice: A theoretical introduction. In K. Tyson (chair) Meta-Collaboration: The role of individuals’ theories of collaboration in the development of collaborative capacities. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
Rossman, L. & Mercier, E.M. (2008, March) Thinking about collaboration: the impact of experience on strategies In K. Tyson (chair) Meta-Collaboration: The role of individuals’ theories of collaboration in the development of collaborative capacities. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
Design of collaboration support tools
The DIVER Project in LIFE
Web-based video collaboration environments, or video collaboratories, have transformative potentials for video-enhanced education and for video-based research studies. The LIFE Center is advancing these potentials in continuing development and user group support of the DIVER software platform, designed to solve a set of core challenges we have identified in supporting video collaboratories. DIVER is a software environment first developed as a desktop software system for exploring research uses of panoramic video records that encompass 360-degree imagery from a dynamic visual environment such as a classroom or a professional meeting (Pea et al., 2004; also see examples at http://diver.stanford.edu/).
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Recent Publications
Pea, R., & Lindgren, R. (2008, Oct-Dec). Video collaboratories for research and education: an analysis of collaboration design patterns. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 1(4), 235-247. (download pdf) (view this on posterous)Pea, R., Mills, M., Rosen, J., Dauber, K., Effelsberg, W., & Hoffert. E. (2004, Jan-March). The DIVER™ Project: Interactive Digital Video Repurposing. IEEE Multimedia, 11(1), 54-61. (download pdf) Pea, R. D. (2006). Video-as-data and digital video manipulation techniques for transforming learning sciences research, education and other cultural practices. In J. Weiss, J. Nolan & P. Trifonas (Eds.), International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments (pp. 1321-1393). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishing. (download pdf) Pea, R., Lindgren, R., & Rosen, J. (2008, September). Cognitive technologies for establishing, sharing and comparing perspectives on video over computer networks. Social Science Information, 47(3), 355-372. (download pdf)
Large group collaborative technology
What is the role of large-group collaborative technologies in the classroom? The Mischief project (http://mousemischief.org) studies large-group collaboration in an inherently shared-control system: we give a mouse to each student in a classroom and connect them all to one computer and display. The result is scores of unique inputs into a shared system, creating new forms of collaborative learning activities.
Recent Publications
Amershi, S., Moraveji, N., Morris, M., Balakrishnan, R., Toyama, K. (2010). Multiple Mouse Text Entry for Single-Display Groupware. CSCW, Savannah, GA, USA. (in review)
Moraveji, N., Lindgren, R., Pea, R. (2009). Organized Mischief: Comparing Shared and Private Displays on a Collaborative Learning Task. Extended abstracts of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. Rhodes, Greece.
Moraveji, N., Inkpen, K., Cutrell, E., Balakrishnan, R. (2009). A Mischief of Mice: Examining Children’s Performance in Single Display Groupware Systems with 1 to 32 Mice. ACM CHI, Boston, MA.
Moraveji, N., Kim, T., Pawar, U., Ge, J., Inkpen, K. (2008). Mischief: Supporting Remote Teaching in Developing Regions. ACM CHI, Florence, Italy.
Moraveji, N., Smith, M., Lee, M. (2008). Interaction Methods for Large-Group Coordination in Single-Display Groupware. ACM UIST, Monterey, CA.