Joint Action Storyboards

Building and maintaining common ground is vital for effective collaboration in CSCW. Moreover, subtle changes a CSCW user interface can significantly impact grounding collaborative processes. Yet, researchers technology designers lack tools to understand how specific designs may hinder or facilitate communication grounding. In this work, we leverage the well-established theory of develop visual framework, called Joint Action Storyboards (JASs), analyze articulate interaction minutiae costs JASs depict an integrated view mental actions collaborators, their physical interactions with each other environment, corresponding incurred. We present development discuss its various benefits HCI research. Through series case studies, demonstrate provide analysis tool serve as on