Spring 2000 , TAM Course "Designing the Information Society of the Next Millennium" — Ernesto Arias and Gerhard Fischer

Assignment 2

due: January 26, 2000

 

Read the article

Arias, E. G., Eden, H., Fischer, G., Gorman, A., & Scharff, E. (2000): "Transcending the Individual Human Mind—Creating Shared Understanding through Collaborative Design," Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, (to appear). Available at: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/papers/tochi99.pdf

 

 

Briefly discuss the following issues:

  1. what did you find
    1. interesting about the article?
    2. not interesting about the article?
  2. what do you consider the main message of the article?
  3. are themes discussed in the article which you would like to know more about?
  4. what did you find interesting about the "Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory" system?
  5. do you know of other papers, ideas, and systems which are closely related to the article and the EDC system?