Building and Using a Collaboratory: A Foundation for Supporting and Studying Group Collaborations

这项研究是由协调问题特别倡议资助的 理论与协作技术。 这是十一位获奖者之一 在这种竞争下。 本研究的中心焦点是实验观察 团体进行真实的协作工作和使用系统， 明确设计的通信媒体，以帮助他们完成任务。 预期成果是扩大对人们如何 协作以及如何设计增强协作的系统 活动 为此，该项目有五个相互依存的 内容：1）观测的理论基础， 理解群体的社会和认知方面 协作; 2）快速原型和重新配置工具 供工作组使用的应用程序环境，以及 支持多人互动的媒体通信; 3） 协议分析工具，记录和研究个人和 小组通过网络计算机环境进行互动; 4） 应用测试平台系统（通用和特定领域）， 由从事真实的工作的团体使用;和5）小组研究和 测试系统、社会和认知假设的实验。

This research is funded under the Special Initiative on Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology. This is one of eleven winners under that competition. The central focus of this research is experimental observation of groups doing real collaborative work and using systems and communications media explicitly designed to aid in their tasks. Expected results are to expand understanding of how people collaborate and how to design systems that augment collaborative activities. To this end the project has five interdependent components: 1) a theoretical foundation for observing and understanding the social and cognitive aspects of group collaborations; 2) tools for rapid prototyping and reconfiguration of application environments for use by working groups, and multi- media communications to support multi-person interactions; 3) protocol analysis tools to record and study how individuals and groups interact through the networked computer environment; 4) application testbed systems (generic and domain specific) that can be used by groups engaged in real work; and 5) group studies and experiments to test systems, social and cognitive hypotheses.