In the recent years, due to the emergence of new models of production based on collaboration, collaborative writing tools started to be increasingly used by various communities. Due to great variety of groupware software, there is the need of criteria for discriminating the working modes supported by these tools. In this paper we propose a new model for the classification of collaborative writi...

What is Scribalab 2.0? A system to create web communities and a modular toolbox for writing and publish on the web. It is made up of two main sections both designed to welcome users and visitors. You can find challenging and interesting tools into the Scriba section, such as ScribaMapping or Scriba6HATS with suggestions for cooperative group activities on creative writing or having the opportun...

This paper describes a collaborative experiment in an early learners’ classroom, equipped with special software and hardware to support the acquisition of initial reading and writing skills. This ‘Computer-integrated Classroom’ originated from the EU project NIMIS. Here, a new method to teach ‘reading through writing’ is supported by a specific software tool (T) in the general framework of the ...

The use of collaborative writing techniques with a group of adolescent girls who are residents in a treatment program specializing in co-occurring disorders is the focus of this article. Collaborative writing techniq~ were found to be effective in deepening interpersonal communicati~ among this population when group members are bonded in relationships based on" mutual concern~ and when, group m...

Writing applications are currently designed for desktop personal computers. Mobile devices like PDAs or smart phones are increasingly being used for mobile applications such as access to information sources or local work on the device, but they are seldom used for collaborative tasks. Here we present AULA and AWLA, two applications that put mobile devices and collaborative educational environme...

Recent years have witnessed major development in plurilingual pedagogies which support the use of learners’ repertoire languages language learning contexts (Payant & Galante, 2022; Piccardo, 2013). However, little research has been undertaken to examine adult perceptions towards their during authentic collaborative writing tasks and contrasted these views with actual behaviours. In this cas...

Group awareness is very important for successful collaborative writing. Our research thereby evaluates some existing awareness mechanisms regarding their effectiveness in achieving group awareness. Accordingly, we formulate the research question of whether the existing awareness mechanisms are effective enough to obtain group awareness and what are the problems of these current awareness mechan...

This thesis builds on theory from the fields of computer supported cooperative work and computer supported collaborative writing and the example of work in the free and open source software development communities to describe “cooperation in parallel” — a mode of collaborative writing among parties with diverged goals and distinct documents. It examines the social and technological requirements...

This paper investigates using higher levels of scripted process structure (procedural explicitness) to improve outcomes of distributed, asynchronous collaborative writing (CW) teams that work on the Internet. This paper reports preliminary results of a one-and-a-half month field experiment on asynchronous collaborative writing using 550 participants. It is found that the highest levels of proce...