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One important way in which learners can co-construct new knowledge is by drawing collaborative inferences from distributed information. However, groups rarely use members’ complementary knowledge resources to their best potential. In this experiment, student dyads were trained to apply collaborative inferencing strategies. Training improved students’ knowledge co-construction during subsequent,...

Awareness is the knowledge about present and past group’s activities and it is a relevant issue for cooperative work. There are many devices that supply awareness information in synchronous collaborative editing systems. However, the current awareness devices have restrictions to both accomplish effective awareness and show the focus of attention identifying the exact place of the participants’...

This paper describes a model for studying collaborative knowledge building (CKB) as a group activity. We integrate the model described by Stahl (2000a) with an analysis based on the principles of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), using the analysis of a self reflective case study to guide the description. The concept of the CKB activity system is developed, and the role of contradicti...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a response to Christiansen’s paper, Ellen Christiansen (2014) “From ‘ethics of the eye’ to ‘ethics of the hand’ by collaborative prototyping”, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 12 No. 1. Design/methodology/approach – Reflection and critique of Christiansen’s position. Findings – The paper raises questions about th...

Article history: Received 23 February 2010 Received in revised form 7 February 2011 Accepted 7 February 2011 Available online 15 February 2011 Communicated by J. Chomicki

Although reflection in groups has been shown to be beneficial for many workplaces, there are little insights on how such collaborative reflection can be supported and how users apply the support in practice. This paper aims to diminish this lack by analyzing usage figures and qualitative information from four cases of using a tool supporting collaborative reflection. From the analysis, it deriv...

Recommendations that are personalized help the users in getting the list of items that are of their interest in e-commerce sites. Majority of recommender systems use Collaborative Filtering techniques to generate recommendations to their users. This project implements an information filtering technique called as Collaborative Filtering for generating personalized recommendations in movies for u...