Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is an emerging branch of learning science concerned with studying how people can learn together with the help of computers. As an indispensable ingredient, computer mediation evolves through couples of phases, e.g. centralized server, peer-to-peer network, grid computing. Nevertheless, with daily rising trend on requirement’s dynamic changes in s...

The development of critical discourse and experimental practices in computer art of the 1960s and 1970s was informed by new forms of collaboration between artists, scientists and institutions. This paper acknowledges the debt owed by modern visualization practice to developments of this period but suggests that much of the artistic and philosophical legacy has been largely ignored in this area....

Looking at computer support for collaborative learning (CSCL) in terms of (a) collaborative knowledge building, (b) group and personal perspectives, (c) mediation by artifacts and (d) micro-analysis of conversation provides a rich, multi-dimensional starting point for conceptualizing and studying CSCL. The notion of collaborative knowledge building defines a useful paradigm for conceptualizing ...

This survey paper investigates the current state of the art with respect to collaborative computing. Specifically, the paper addresses the field of collaborative software engineering and focuses on the background and issues related to distributed software development. The paper begins by exploring collaborative computing in general, discusses synchronous and asynchronous collaboration and commu...

This research examined learner behaviors, conflicting factors, and facilitating factors while students engaged in collaborative work via asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC). A total of 995 postings from 4 groups (19 students) in the spring semester (Study 1) and 6 groups (24 students) in the fall semester (Study 2) were analyzed. A coding scheme was generated based on constant co...

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) systems are often distinguished by the time and space proximity of their intended users. A four-quadrant graphic is often used to show the possible combinations: synchronous -co-located, synchronous -remote, asynchronous -co-located, asynchronous -remote. We argue that several dimensions other than time and space are critical to consider. In particular...

This paper reports on the fruitful combination of academic experience with formal modelling techniques and industrial experience with requirements exploration. We study the addition of a publish/subscribe notification service to thinkteam, 1 a ready-to-use Product Data Management application developed by think3. thinkteam allows enterprises to capture, organise, automate, and share engineering ...

Despite emphasis and progress in developing collaborative inquiry in computer-supported collaborative learning research, little attention has been given to examining how collective learning can be assessed in computer-supported collaborative learning classrooms, and how students can have agency in assessing their own collaborative process. We propose that assessments should capture both individ...

This article presents a model-driven approach to improve interoperability of enterprises information systems. This approach proposes to design a mediation information system (MIS) dedicated to deal with exchanged data, shared services and collaborative processes. The MIS design crosses the different abstraction layers (business, logic and technological) and exploits at each level the associated...

Second or foreign language (L2) learners’ development of interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) competence to understand and properly interpret utterances under certain social and cultural circumstances plays a pivotal role in the achievement of communicative competence. The current study was designed to explore the effects of synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) and asynchronous com...