“It Looks Like You Don’t Agree”: Idiosyncratic Practices and Preferences in Collaborative Writing

Larsen-Ledet, Ida; Borowski, Marcel

doi:10.1145/3441000.3441032

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“…The reflections presented in this paper stem from a project on collaborative writing in academia [15]. The reprogrammable prototype discussed here was implemented based on ideation activities with present and former students as well as academic employees from our local university.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We supplemented this by examining the groups' modified prototypes and storyboards. The plenary discussions were transcribed as part of the overall project, presented elsewhere [15]. Our analysis was further informed by the questionnaire and the transcripts of the plenary discussions.…”

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“…As part of a longer project on co-designing for collaborative academic writing [15], we created a prototype that was extensible and reprogrammable at run-time and deployed it in two short-term prototyping workshops. A total of 13 participants worked on collaboratively tailoring and reprogramming the functionality of their prototypes as end-user developers [10] -end-users with some level of technical and/or programming knowledge.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Lessons Learned from Using Reprogrammable Prototypes with End-User Developers

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Larsen-Ledet

2021

End-User Development

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Involving end-users in the development of a product before it is deployed has great potential to increase the fit between a product and individual users' needs. While end-users can be directly involved in modifying low-fidelity prototypes, they are left out when it comes to high-fidelity interactive prototypes -in part because these cannot be modified directly or require time-consuming edit-compile-run cycles. High-fidelity prototypes, however, are more engaging for users. We created a reprogrammable high-fidelity prototype and explored its use in shortterm prototyping workshops with end-user developers, i.e. end-users with programming experience, in the domain of collaborative writing. We report observations and pitfalls, and distill four lessons learned into guidelines on how to use reprogrammable high-fidelity prototypes with end-users in contexts with limited resources. Our experiences demonstrate, among other things, that reprogrammable high-fidelity prototypes are difficult to work with -even for experienced programmers -and emphasize the need for careful attention to guiding participants, time for familiarization, and catering to multiple levels of programming experience.

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Two Cases for Traces

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Larsen-Ledet

2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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In this paper we activate theoretical principles for HCI and CSCW in analysis and design of collaborative technologies. We critically evaluate theoretical principles about how technologies mediate collaborative activities through two empirical cases regarding smart speakers and collaborative writing, respectively. Common to them is that both common objects and mediating artifacts are set in a mixed virtual and physical setting. Principles from activity theory are examined, specifically with a focus on how people use artifacts and objects as mediators to collaborate in joint activity. As part of questioning the cases, we also position collaborative affordances in relation to the principles. We engage with the cases by using the theoretical principles both analytically and constructively. Our analysis specifically targets traces as a possible construct that has potential to constructively aid collaboration across the two cases. We explore what seems to be a lack of support, and in particular theoretical framing, of traces of past activities, connected objects, other users, etc. With an initial hypothesis that traces could be a mechanism that would support these two kinds of collaborative activities better in a future redesign, we set out to further explore the cases and their future possibilities, and how they could be conceptually grounded and supported. We present a set of analytically and constructively oriented questions to help researchers and designers of artifacts identify mediators for and instances of collaboration.

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