Writing apart and designing together

Authors:
Andrew L. Cohen;Debra Cash;Michael J. Muller;Curtis Culberson
Affiliations:
Lotus Development, Cambridge, MA;New Century, Belmont, MA;Lotus Development, Cambridge, MA;Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
1999

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Abstract

We report a qualitative study of collaboration in writing and presentation preparation. We highlight one important difference identified between the collaborative writing and the construction of presentations: When collaborating on documents, co-authors seldom constructed text synchronously. However, when collaborating on presentations, co-authors commonly engaged in synchronous construction of presentations. We conclude that tools supporting collaborative writing and presentation-development should provide real-time manipulation for presentation development, but for collaborative writing shared viewing and annotation may be sufficient.