General Remark for all assignments - always remember the following statement by Blaise Pascal: "I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it shorter."

Assignment 1


Due: Wed, January 23, 2002; 8:00am on the class website

Read the article

Arias, E. G., Eden, H., Fischer, G., Gorman, A., & Scharff, E. (2000) "Transcending the Individual Human Mind-Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design," ACM Transactions on Computer Human-Interaction, 7(1), pp. 84-113.
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/systems/EDC/pdf/tochi99.pdf

Briefly discuss the following issues:

  1. what did you find
    1. interesting about the article?
    2. not interesting about the article?
  2. what do you consider the main message of the article?
  3. are themes discussed in the article which you would like to know more about?
  4. what did you find interesting about the "Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC)" system?
  5. do you know of other papers, ideas, and systems which are closely related to the article and the EDC system?
  6. what does the article say about
    1. design
    2. learning
    3. collaboration
    4. innovative media support for these activities?
  7. do you have any ideas how this research could / should be extended (based on your own knowledge and experience)?

More Information about the EDC can be found at:
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/systems/EDC/