Gerhard Fischer and Hal Eden: “Design, Learning, and Collaboration” — Spring Semester 2006

Assignment 4 — The Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory

due

1. Mon, February 6, 2006; 10am on the class website

2. You can work as a group and submit one answer as a group (clearly identifying the members of your group)

3. We are trying out a new way of submitting the assignment. You can type your answers in the forms below. When you click on the "submit" button below, a new page with your answers will be created and a link to that page inserted at the bottom of this page. (You can always go to that page and edit your answers).

(If you have problems with this or prefer to work off line, you can use the usual submission mechanism, here is the doc file:assignment4-dlc2006)

Read the following 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://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/tochi2000.pdf

More Information about the Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC) can be found at:
http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/EDC/

Assignment 4

Type your name(s) here:


Briefly discuss the following issues for the paper that you have read:

1. what did you find
1.1. interesting about the article?


1.2. 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 “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 do the article and the associated system say about
6.1. design


6.2. learning


6.3. collaboration


6.4. innovative media to support these activities?


7. do you have any ideas how this research could / should be extended (based on your own knowledge and experience)?


 
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