| Objectives |
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Develop support tools
to allow continued testing of prototype environments,
specifically a capture environment and media review tool
for doing detailed ethnographic study of distributed activity |
| • |
Provide design guidelines and foundations
for design guidelines for distributed collaborative
environments |
| • |
Advance theory of distributed
cognition by deepening our understanding of coordination,
stabilization and activity |
| Tasks |
| • |
Help design the data
collection methods |
| • |
Assist in the execution of the experiment:
- setup laptops with the appropriate software running
(NetMeeting, Camtasia)
- position the video cameras at the angle to record
the best data
- prep the participants
- record my observations during the experiment
- conduct post-experiment interviews
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| • |
Digitze the videos |
| • |
Analyze the videos looking for interesting
phenomena (errors, interruptions, stabilizations) |
| • |
Cut video clips of the
interesting portions of the recordings for reports |
| • |
Combine the video clips into PowerPoint
for reports |
Research
