Paper Info
Title
Encouraging task-related dialog in 2D and 3D shared narrative workspaces
Abstract
This paper describes a series of studies conducted to evaluate methods of encouraging productive dialog between young children in 2D and 3D shared narrative workspaces. These workspaces were based on the Graphic Story Writer (GSW), an interactive system that produces coherent narrative text in response to user interactions. In particular, we examine the effect of introducing "positive interdependence" between collaborators as a way of encouraging productive dialog.Three studies of user interactions with the GSW were performed. An initial study of collaborative storytelling using a 2D version of the GSW demonstrated the technical feasibility of creating a shared 2D workspace devoted to narrative construction The study also confirmed the difficulty of encouraging communication between children during synchronous learning activities at separate computers. The second study introduced an additional condition that created positive interdependence between users. Users in this condition had significantly more on-task communication than those in the other conditions. We go on to describe how we modified the 2D GSW model to support collaboration in a 3D shared workspace, and provide observations and insights gained from a usability study of the 3D GSW.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1145/571878.571885
CVE
Keywords
Field
DocType
narrative construction,encouraging communication,gsw model,usability study,user interaction,positive interdependence,initial study,task-related dialog,productive dialog,narrative workspaces,coherent narrative text,computer supported cooperative work,workspaces,narrative
Dialog box,Technical feasibility,Positive interdependence,Collaborative storytelling,Computer science,Workspace,Usability,Synchronous learning,Narrative,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-489-4
6
0.64
References 
Authors
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karl E. Steiner14017.90
Tom Moher211318.08