TY - GEN
T1 - How Shared Online Whiteboard Supports Online Collaborative Design Activities
T2 - AHFE Conferences on Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Human Factors in Communication of Design, 2021
AU - Li, Qingchuan
AU - Zhang, Jiaxin
AU - Xie, Xin
AU - Luximon, Yan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The distance education and online learning have received increasing attention in recent years. However, due to the spatial separation and time differences brought by online learning spaces, the efficiency of the interaction between peers and instructors can be significantly decreased, especially for online collaborative design activities. The online whiteboard was developed to provide users with a virtual whiteboard for visual creation and idea generation, but its effectiveness has not been adequately explored. This study aims to explore whether such an online whiteboard can adequately support users’ communication and collaboration behavior during online collaborative design activities. An in-depth interview was conducted to investigate users’ evaluations based on three social interaction aspects: affective expression, open communication, and group cohesion. The results reveal both the usefulness and drawbacks of the online whiteboard in facilitating participants’ online collaborative design activities. Suggestions for future online collaborative tools are also discussed.
AB - The distance education and online learning have received increasing attention in recent years. However, due to the spatial separation and time differences brought by online learning spaces, the efficiency of the interaction between peers and instructors can be significantly decreased, especially for online collaborative design activities. The online whiteboard was developed to provide users with a virtual whiteboard for visual creation and idea generation, but its effectiveness has not been adequately explored. This study aims to explore whether such an online whiteboard can adequately support users’ communication and collaboration behavior during online collaborative design activities. An in-depth interview was conducted to investigate users’ evaluations based on three social interaction aspects: affective expression, open communication, and group cohesion. The results reveal both the usefulness and drawbacks of the online whiteboard in facilitating participants’ online collaborative design activities. Suggestions for future online collaborative tools are also discussed.
KW - Collaborative design activity
KW - Community of Inquiry
KW - Online learning
KW - Online whiteboard
KW - Social interaction
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85112147080
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-80094-9_34
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-80094-9_34
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85112147080
SN - 9783030800932
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 285
EP - 293
BT - Advances in Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Communication of Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Virtual Conferences on Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Human Factors in Communication of Design, 2021
A2 - Markopoulos, Evangelos
A2 - Goonetilleke, Ravindra S.
A2 - Ho, Amic G.
A2 - Luximon, Yan
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 25 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -