Visualizing writing activity as knowledge work: challenges & opportunities

  • Authors:
  • William Hart-Davidson;Clay Spinuzzi;Mark Zachry

  • Affiliations:
  • Michigan State University;University of Texas at Austin;University of Washington

  • Venue:
  • SIGDOC '06 Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Digital environments enable distributed work. Though they pose challenges for research, they also provide affordances for addressing these difficulties including opportunities to capture and visualize writing activity in significant detail. This paper surveys sources of visualizations of writing processes and practices, focusing on attempts to deal with writing as a distributed activity. We then ask: what qualities of visualizations seem desirable and help to render writing visible as knowledge work for the purpose of providing mediational support to writers