DocumentCode :
2552093
Title :
Coherence and interactivity in text-based group discussions around Web documents
Author :
Eklundh, Kerstin Severinson ; Rodriguez, Henrry
Author_Institution :
Interaction & Presentation Lab., NADA R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden
fYear :
2004
fDate :
5-8 Jan. 2004
Abstract :
This paper reports on a study of text-based communication in a Web-based groupware system, DHS. The system supports annotation of a set of shared documents, where the annotations are gathered in a common dialogue space for each document. Since the system does not support threading of messages, it is of interest to explore how participants use the referential space to connect to each other´s contributions. The analysis reveals that the evolving dialogues are characterized by a dual discourse context of documents and comments. The modes of linking are conversational and often implicit, which may lead to coherence problems. We present a visualization tool designed to explore interactivity and referencing strategies in these document-centered dialogues, and discuss implications of our findings for the design of computer-mediated communication systems.
Keywords :
groupware; text analysis; DHS; Web documents; Web-based groupware system; computer-mediated communication systems; shared documents; text-based communication; text-based group discussion; visualization tool; Collaborative software; Context; Frequency conversion; Laboratories; Software standards; Uniform resource locators; Visualization; Web pages; Web sites; Yarn;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2056-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2004.1265286
Filename :
1265286
Link To Document :
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