Lessons from thoughtswap-ing: increasing participants' coordinative agency in facilitated discussions

Authors:
Margaret Dickey-Kurdziolek;Matthew Schaefer;Deborah Tatar;Ian P. Renga
Affiliations:
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA;Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA;University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Year:
2010

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Abstract

A successful collaborative tool designed to aid discussion must be flexible, maintain the user's coordinative agency, and be appropriable in many contexts. We have developed a tool, called ThoughtSwap, to help widen and deepen the scope of participation in facilitated discussions while supporting, not supplanting, discussants' coordination. By driving the design of ThoughtSwap toward a simpler mechanism, we were able to create a more versatile, high-impact tool. We design for an educational setting, but see wider possible use.