Appropriate design of collaborative learning activities for students using 1:1 handheld devices can lead to peer scaffolding, building up students‟ collaborative skills. Building on such prior studies in mCSCL (mobile Computer Supported Collaborative Learning), we derived Chinese-PP, a novel design of in-class mobile synchronous collaborative learning game on constructions of Chinese characters...

Automated as well as remotely controlled robots have high potential to expand our research and practice in collaborative learning environments. The area of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is one in which advanced technologies have been used effectively to automatically monitor and dynamically structure group discussions for learning. Traditional desktop environments for collabo...

Collaborative information retrieval is a particular setting involving a set of users sharing the same information need. In this context, the application of the division of labor policy through collaborators’ roles is generally used in order to structure the search session and enhance its retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we propose to analyse the search features of pairwise collaborators ...

TagClouds is a popular visualization for the collaborative tags. However it has some instinct problems such as linguistic issues, high semantic density and poor understanding of hierarchical structure and semantic relation between tags. In this paper we investigate the ways to support semantic understanding of collaborative tags and propose an improved visualization named TagClusters. Based on ...

The vision of ubiquitous communication is driven by increasing user mobility and the need to collaborate. Mobile collaborative applications, such as mobile audio/video conferences, collaborative writing, social networks, and mobile gaming, are already important parts of human interaction. In this paper, we present the uBeeMe platform that supports the development of cooperative applications for...

One of the main difficulties in creating a model-based, predictive error analysis method for collaborative work is establishing a useful perspective with which to describe collaborative work and failure systematically. This paper addresses the need for a systematic approach to analysing possible failures of collaborative work in order to create such a method. An iterative approach to the design...

A constraint specifies a relation or condition that must be maintained in a system. It is common for a single user graphic system to specify some constraints and provide methods to satisfy these constraints automatically. Constraints are even more useful in collaborative systems, which can confine and coordinate concurrent operations, but satisfying constraints in the presence of concurrency in...

Gamification design is considered as the predictor of collaborative storytelling websites' success. Although aforementioned studies have mentioned a broad range of factors that may influence gamification, they neither depicted the actual design features nor relative attractiveness among them. This study aims to identify attractive gamification features for collaborative storytelling websites. W...

In recent years, there has been increased interest among funding organizations and administrators in supporting the acquisition of interdisciplinary skills in collaborative communities, such as universities, national labs, and knowledge-based firms. However, there has been relatively little work exploring the effects of interdisciplinarity on the structure and function of these communities. In ...

In this paper, we explore the learning that occurred in two types of collaborative learning environments in a seventh grade life sciences classroom: an intra-group environment and an intergroup environment. Students used both types of collaboration tools, each tuned to the needs of the task they were doing within or across groups. We found that the learning outcomes in the two collaborative set...