Today, even in the presence of IT applications built for the blind, they are facing many problems. Either the applications are for individual’s use or if offer collaborative writing, they are not up to the mark. In the collaborative writing, for instance, in Microsoft Word Add-In and the Google Docs UI, the authors do not know about changes made in the document. Though the former facilitates th...

Hearing impairment was indicated as the second largest proven deficiency in world population. People with such disabilities face many obstacles in their communication and interaction with listeners, even with equal level of cognitive development. Collaborative tools offer the possibility to improve the interaction between listeners and hearing impaired subjects. This study presents an approach ...

Mobile, digital technologies are thought to augment and transcend the limits of our places, yet they raise the issue of what our places are. PlaceMark is a simple, distributed collaborative authoring environment constructed in conjunction with a site-specific writing activity. Here, we examine it as a cultural probe, investigating how new media students engage in collaborative writing and how t...

The paper discusses possibilities of constructing new training objects automatically, on-the-fly as a result of any collaborative activity within a WBT system. Such collaborative activities may include participating in discussion forums, brainstorming sessions, writing document annotations, etc. This feature might be seen as collaborative authoring of training objects in WBT systems. Technical ...

To provide efficient support for collaborative writing to a community of authors is a complex and demanding task, members need to communicate, coordinate, and produce in a concerted fashion in order to obtain a final version of the documents that meets overall expectations. In this paper, we present the PIÑAS middleware, a platform that provides potential and actual collaboration spaces, as wel...

Wikis are well-known for supporting collaborative writing. They are focusing on asynchronous collaboration. Today, synchronous text editing in the web is supported by several tools and approaches. However, this possibility is still missing in wikis. Based on a prototype implementation, this paper presents design considerations for a wiki integrating synchronous collaborative editing as a specia...

Use of wikis in education reflects a shift in the education paradigm from lecture and individual homework-based to a paradigm emphasizing student engagement and the construction of knowledge through collaboration and peer-help. Existing research work on the use of wiki in collaborative writing had given mixed results. The goals of this research are to investigate whether wiki supports learning ...

Wiki technology provides new opportunities to foster collaborative learning in various educational settings. To empirically examine the impact of wikis on learning, this article explores students’ collaborative writing activities performed on MediaWiki. The activities were analyzed using a taxonomy with ten categories (clarify content, add content, delete content, add link, delete link, fix lin...