Gerhard Fischer and Hal Eden: “Design, Learning, and Collaboration” — Spring Semester 2005Assignment 3 — EDCdue1. Wed, January 26, 2005; 9am on the class website2. you can work as a group and submit one answer as a group (clearly identifying the members of your group) 3. max length: two pages Read the following article:Arias, E. G., Eden, H., Fischer, G., Gorman, A., & Scharff, E. (2000) "Transcending the Individual Human Mind—Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design," ACM Transactions on Computer Human-Interaction, 7(1), pp. 84-113. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/tochi2000.pdf More Information about the Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC) can be found at: http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/EDC/ Briefly discuss the following issues for the paper that you have read: 1. what did you find 1.1. interesting about the article? 1.2. not interesting about the article? 2. what do you consider the main message of the article? 3. are themes discussed in the article which you would like to know more about? 4. what did you find interesting about the “EDC” system? 5. do you know of other papers, ideas, and systems which are closely related to the article and the “EDC” system? 6. what do the article and the associated system say about 6.1. design 6.2. learning 6.3. collaboration 6.4. innovative media to support these activities? 7. do you have any ideas how this research could / should be extended (based on your own knowledge and experience)?
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