Category: CSCW
Abstract: Tang and Leifer used detailed transcripts of
        design sessions to examine the possible purposes
        behind activities of a small design team who share a
        drawing surface. They found that artifacts, when
        combined with a person's gestures, are just as
        valuable for representing ideas and for engaging
        attention. A graphic evolves along with ideas into a
        final artifact, and gesturing is used for pointing
        and focusing attention during the collaboration.
        They conclude that too much attention has been paid
        to the artifacts left behind from collaborative
        meetings. In many cases, these are just marks that
        are inherently meaningless. The process of creating
        drawings and gesturing to them may be as important
        to the design process as the drawings themselves.
Bibtype: InProceedings
Booktitle: Proceedings of the Conference on
        Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '88)
Author: J. C. Tang
        L. J. Leifer
Pages: 244-249
Month: September 26-28
Title: A framework for understanding the workspace activity
        of design teams
Note: shared workspace, evaluation
Year: 1988
Address: Portland, Oregon
Publisher: ACM Press