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Title: "Dual interaction spaces."
Day: Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Time: 9:00-17:00
Location: C01
Contact: Pierre Dillenbourg (pierre.dillenbourg@epfl.ch)
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Description: Collaborative environments include two main spaces of interaction:
(1) The discourse space can be a chat, a forum or an audio channel or simply voice when
learners are collocated
(2) The task space is where students interact with the task objects (a simulation window,
a physical set of objects, …)
This distinction is shallow since the task space is obviously also a communication space
(A's actions convey a message to B) and the discourse space is also a place where students
manipulate verbally task concepts. Even more confusing are systems such as Belvedere, for
instance, in which the task space mediates the construction of an argument, i.e. a discourse
structure. However, at a very pragmatic level, these spaces are often physically dissociated,
the interactions being mostly verbal on the task space and partly based on gestures in the task
space. The former is often textual while the latter in often graphical. These two spaces can be
mediated or not by the computer.
This workshop is concerned by situation 1, where both spaces are computerized, since it
enables us to study in depth the articulation between activities occurring in each space.
In most CSCL environments, these two spaces are either two different applications juxtaposed
on the student screen or, at least, two visually distinct sub-area of the environment display.
In both case, the computer introduces an artificial separation between the two spaces that
can be questioned in several ways.
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