Title :
Visualization of interactions in collaborative writing
Author :
Biuk-Aghai, Robert P. ; Kelen, Christopher ; Venkatesan, Hari
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Univ. of Macau, Macao
Abstract :
Wikis have become an important component of a collaboration infrastructure, particularly in loosely-coupled and self-organizing settings such as those of digital ecosystems. We report on our use of wikis in the education domain to support collaborative creative writing, as well as collaborative translation. This paper presents an analysis and visualization tool that we have developed as an aid for assessing both the process and the outcome of these collaborative writing tasks.
Keywords :
data visualisation; groupware; information networks; interactive programming; Wikis; collaborative writing; interactions visualization; loosely-coupled settings; self-organizing settings; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Collaborative tools; Data visualization; Ecosystems; Educational products; Information science; Publishing; Wikipedia; Writing; assessment; collaborative writing; digital ecosystems; information visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2008. DEST 2008. 2nd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Phitsanulok
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1489-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1490-1
DOI :
10.1109/DEST.2008.4635141