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Do handheld devices facilitate face-to-face collaboration? Handheld devices with large shared display groupware to facilitate group interactions.

One-to-one computing environments change and improve classroom dynamics as individual students can bring handheld devices fitted with wireless communication capabilities into the classrooms. However, the screens of handheld devices, being designed for individual-user mobile application, limit promot...

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Published in:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 285 - 300
Main Authors: Liu C, Kao L
Format: equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2007
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          Liu C
          Kao L
        affil: Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, No. 300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, Taoyuan Country 32001, Taiwan (R.O.C.) ;ccliu@cl.ncu.edu.tw
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          Collaboration
          Computer-Assisted Instruction
          Computers, Hand-Held
          Communication
          Comparative Studies
          Education, Graduate
          Human
          Interpersonal Relations
          Learning Environment
          Outcomes of Education
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          Videorecording
          Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
      ab: One-to-one computing environments change and improve classroom dynamics as individual students can bring handheld devices fitted with wireless communication capabilities into the classrooms. However, the screens of handheld devices, being designed for individual-user mobile application, limit promotion of interaction among groups of learners. This study proposes a design of classrooms that incorporates personal workspace and public workspace. Students use handheld devices as private workspace and work with peers on public workspace with shared displays through their handheld devices. Experiments confirmed that students with only handheld devices did not demonstrate expected participation ratios and actively interact with group members. The proposed shared display groupware promoted shared understanding of the workspace and increased awareness of partner actions. Collaboration was enhanced by creating the opportunity for students to use handheld devices to perform ideal communication patterns and avoiding ineffective communication patterns.
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