VisciPad: Peeking into a Collaborative Creative Writing Project in Elementary School

Author

Vähäkangas, Taneli ; Pyykkö, Joel

Author_Institution

Helsinki Inst. for Inf. Technol. HIIT, Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 Jan. 2012

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

44

Abstract

We describe an experimental setting of creative collaborative writing in an elementary school in Finland, among a group of 5th and 6th graders. They were provided with small portable computers ("netbooks") and ubiquitous access through WLAN and 3G to a collaborative writing service based on Ether Pad. The computers and service were used for three months to produce manuscripts for a musical. Our work is an exploratory characterization of the usage patterns and customs that emerged, as they can be detected post hoc from the automatically revisioned writings and online discussions.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; groupware; portable computers; ubiquitous computing; 3G; Ether Pad; VisciPad; WLAN; collaborative creative writing project; elementary school; small portable computers; ubiquitous access; Browsers; Collaboration; Entropy; Portable computers; Software; Writing; collaborative work; instant messaging; ubiquitous computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5), 2012 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Playa Vista, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1009-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/C5.2012.10

Filename

6195220