The development of cooperation: five years of participatory design in the virtual school

  • Authors:
  • John M. Carroll;George Chin;Mary Beth Rosson;Dennis C. Neale

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, MSIN: K7-28, Richland, WA;Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

  • Venue:
  • DIS '00 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

During the past five years, our research group worked with a group of public school teachers to define, develop, and assess network-based support for collaborative learning in middle school physical science and high school physics. From the outset, we committed to a participatory design approach. This design collaboration has now existed far longer than is typical of participatory design endeavors, particularly in North America. The nature of our interactions, and in particular the nature of the role played by the teachers has changed significantly through the course of the project. We suggest that there may be a long-term developmental unfolding of roles and relationships in participatory design.