Classroom BRIDGE: using collaborative public and desktop timelines to support activity awareness

Classroom BRIDGE supports activity awareness by facilitating planning and goal revision in collaborative, project-based middle school science. It integrates largescreen and desktop views of project times to support incidental creation of awareness information through routine document transactions, integrated presentation of awareness information as part of workspace views, and public access to subgroup activity. It demonstrates and develops an object replication approach to integrating synchronous and asynchronous distributed work for a platform incorporating both desktop and large-screen devices. This paper describes an implementation of these concepts with preliminary evaluation data, using timelinebased user interfaces. Keywords activity awareness, CSCL, CSCW, large screen display, multiple-device system, timeline interface

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: UIST
• Authors: Craig H. Ganoe, Jacob P. Somervell, Dennis C. Neale, Philip L. Isenhour, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, D. Scott McCrickard
• Keywords: Activity Awareness, Awareness Information, Keywords Activity Awareness, UIST 2003