CSCL SIG First Symposium

The list of events I plan to take part of at the CSCL SIG First Symposium this week:

WEDNESDAY

09h30-18h – CE 1
Mosil Workshop

THURSDAY

Group participation
11h30-12h30 – CE103 (Paper Session)
U. Creâ & Hesse, F. Why group-awareness tools can undermine participation. The effect of providing participants’ portraits in a virtual informationexchange environment Tholander, J. & Fernaeus, Y. Embodied programming with visual and tangible representations.

Spatial Awareness in Collaboration and Group Interaction
14h00-18h00 – CE101 (Workshop)
The workshop about spatial positioning in mobile collaboration aims to study the relationships between space, collaborative problem solving and cognition in group. It will address basic research issues at the crossroads of human cognition and information technology. The workshop will basically be divided into two parts: paper presentation and an hands-on activity. The idea will be to form groups who will have to design a location based service intended for collaborative work/learning using low tech prototyping techniques. This will foster discussion about various question with regards to people’s research interests, collaborative scenario and features to support them.

FRIDAY

Visualizing social space
10h00-11h00 – CE100 (Paper session)
Ramberg, R. Creative Collaboration with represent-tations in an Interactive Space. Purbojo, P. & De Hoog, R. The effects of visual information on shaping communication patterns and decision processes in a collaborative and distributed computer based environment.

Interaction Analysis
14h00-18h00 – CE100 (workshop)
Up to the present, CSCL community has focused on the design, the implementation and the evaluation of collaborative learning environments, as well as on the understanding of collaborative learning processes. Actually, it is started to be acknowledged that the design of technology based learning environments must not be limited to the initial means of interaction itself, but needs to be extended to the means that analysing the very complex interactions that occur, thereby could support collaborative activities participants (students & teachers). The fulfi lment of the goal of awareness support for participants in collaborative leaning activities is pushed by the intensive interest to use collaborative systems in every day educational practice, where there is a need to (self) evaluate in an operational way, both the learning outcomes/processes and the quality of collaboration.

SATURDAY

11h30-12h30 – CE104
Overview of CSCL research in Taiwan