This paper presents an empirical research to study synchronous and asynchronous collaborative design in a technology-mediated situation. In this experiment we wanted to create a design situation where four distant designers had to communicate using commercial software and standard hardware configurations. Our methodological approach gave us the opportunity to examine two main lines of research ...

The World Wide Web has served as a medium for collaboration since its inception. Web-based collaboration has, however, been dominated by systems supporting asynchronous activities such as sharing documents and participating in discussion forums. Supporting interactive, synchronous collaboration on the Web has proven much more challenging. In this paper we describe three of the challenges encoun...

ManyInsights – Asynchronous Collaborative Visual Analytics Jing Yang, Chen Yang, and Scott Barlowe have been collaborating with Ye Zhao and Alsakran at Kent State University on supporting effective common ground construction in asynchronous collaborative visual analytics [4]. We have developed a novel visual analytics approach named ManyInsights. It automatically gathers, organizes, and summari...

In software engineering as well as in any engineering domain, a way of customizing the collaborative work to various modes of collaboration, i.e. synchronous and asynchronous, and the possibility of alternating these modes along the phases of a project is required. Our goal is to develop a universal information platform that can support collaboration in a range of application domains, the basic...

This is an informal discussion from my personal perspective on computersupported collaborative learning (CSCL). I envision an epical opportunity for promising new media to enable interpersonal interaction with today’s network technologies. While asynchronous media have often been tried in classroom settings, I have found that synchronous text chat in small workgroups can be particularly engagin...

It is suggested that a new area of CSCR (Computer Supported Collaborative Research) is distinguished from CSCW (Computer Supported Collaborative Work) and CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning) and that the demarcation between the three areas could do with greater clarification and prescription. Although the areas of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), CSCW, and CSCL are now relatively ...

Scientific collaborations are established for a wide variety of tasks for which several communication modes are necessary, including messaging, file-sharing, and collaborative editing. In this position paper, we describe our work on the Pervasive Collaborative Computing Environment (PCCE) which aims to facilitate scientific collaboration within widely distributed environments. The PCCE provides...

This paper presents an empirical research to study synchronous and asynchronous collaborative design in a technology-mediated situation. In this experiment we wanted to create a design situation where four distant designers had to communicate using commercial software and standard hardware configurations. Our methodological approach gave us the opportunity to examine two main lines of research ...

Many successful algorithms, such as Asynchronous Partial Overlay (APO), have recently been developed for cooperative distributed problem solving based on the notion of coordinated mediation. In this paper we examine the impact of different strategies for choosing mediators with respect to the complexity of distributed problem solving and the difficulty in merging decentralized solutions. We pre...