Panel session I: Collaborative content creation

This panel will discuss collaborative content creation that is distributed and digital. Each panelist will provide a brief perspective on their research pertaining to this topic. A moderated discussion will then examine: 1) what approaches work best for different collaboration goals and different types of content, including text, software, and multimedia; 2) real-time and asynchronous content collaboration; 3) contributing factors to the collaboration success such as visual and awareness feedback; 4) potential barriers such as generational and / or cultural differences and their mitigation; 5) crowdsourcing and 6) other noteworthy trends and research findings.