The paper addresses the problem of how to share knowledge between a small group of people engaged in learning activities. In existing systems that support collaborative learning there is some evidence that difficulties occur when we try to: (1) support the sharing of knowledge between users; (2) support the learning process across distributed groups within a given educational setting; and (3) p...

The goal of a collaborative system is to provide a platform for group discussion so that the ideas of the majority can be captured and categorized. Such a platform would incorporate functionality to allow a group of experts to thoroughly explore and analyze a problem domain by following a discourse structure they could design, maintain and evolve as the knowledge structure for that particular d...

This paper investigates using higher levels of scripted process structure (procedural explicitness) to improve outcomes of distributed, asynchronous collaborative writing (CW) teams that work on the Internet. This paper reports preliminary results of a one-and-a-half month field experiment on asynchronous collaborative writing using 550 participants. It is found that the highest levels of proce...

Designing Hypermedia is a Collaborative Activity Norbert A. Streitz, GMD–IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany While approaches exist for designing hypermedia applications with respect to content, structure, and presentation [2], little attention has been paid to the actual process that individual designers incur (see Nanard and Nanard in this issue) or that groups undergo in collaborative design. Large and...