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Writing apart and designing together

Published: 15 May 1999 Publication History

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We report a qualitative study of collaboration in writing and presentation preparation. We highlight one important difference identified between the collaborative writing and the construction of presentations: When collaborating on documents, co-authors seldom constructed text synchronously. However, when collaborating on presentations, co-authors commonly engaged in synchronous construction of presentations. We conclude that tools supporting collaborative writing and presentation-development should provide real-time manipulation for presentation development, but for collaborative writing shared viewing and annotation may be sufficient.

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      CHI EA '99: CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
      May 1999
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      ISBN:1581131585
      DOI:10.1145/632716
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      Published: 15 May 1999

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      1. ethnography
      2. field study
      3. presentations
      4. qualitative
      5. writing

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      May 15 - 20, 1999
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