Paper Info
Title
Modelling symmetry of activity as an indicator of collocated group collaboration
Abstract
There are many contexts where it would be helpful to model the collaboration of a group. In learning settings, this is important for classroom teachers and for students learning collaboration skills. Our approach exploits the digital and audio footprints of the users' actions at collocated settings to automatically build a model of symmetry of activity. This paper describes our theoretical model of collaborative learning and how we implemented it. We use the Gini coefficient as a statistical indicator of symmetry of activity, which is itself an important indicator of collaboration. We built this model from a small-scale qualitative study based on concept mapping at an interactive tabletop. We then evaluated the model using a larger scale study based on a corpus of coded data from a multi-display groupware collocated setting. Our key contributions are the model of symmetry of activity as a foundation for modelling collaboration within groups that should have egalitarian participation, the operationalisation of the model and validation of the approach on both a small-scale qualitative study and a larger scale quantitative corpus of data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-22362-4_18
UMAP
Keywords
Field
DocType
modelling collaboration,collocated group collaboration,collaboration skill,modelling symmetry,important indicator,quantitative corpus,collaborative learning,larger scale,theoretical model,collocated setting,small-scale qualitative study,larger scale study,groupware,clustering
Concept map,Collaborative learning,Collaborative software,Computer science,Exploit,Human–computer interaction,Gini coefficient,Group collaboration,Cluster analysis,Qualitative research
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6787
0302-9743
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.73
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roberto Martinez124033.05
Judy Kay21937169.27
James R. Wallace329623.17
Kalina Yacef479880.57