Distributing attention across multiple social worlds |
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Authors: | Renate Fruchter Marisa Ponti |
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Affiliation: | (1) Project Based Learning Laboratory, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305-4020, USA;(2) Learning, Communication, and IT Lab, IT University, Goteborg, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Being a member of both local and global teams requires constant distribution and re-distribution of attention, engagement,
and intensive communication over synchronous and asynchronous channels with remote and local partners. We explore in this
paper the increasing number of social worlds such participants distribute their attention to, how this affects their level
of engagement and attention, and how the workspace, collaboration technologies, and interaction modes afford and constrain
the communicative events. The use of information and collaboration technologies (ICT) shapes and reshapes work spaces, processes,
and social interactions among team members, and team members reshape ICT and the way it is used. We use as a testbed the AEC
Global Teamwork course established at Stanford in 1993 in collaboration with universities worldwide and provide examples from
two sites—Stanford PBL Lab, California USA and Chalmers University, Goteborg Sweden. We used temporal analysis and qualitative
methods of inquiry in order to study participants’ attention, how they used the site and the means, i.e., their social and
material resources, to accomplish their interaction needs, and how they engaged throughout project reviews. |
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