Collaboration and Chat: Recipiency in Online Math Problem Solving

• In Event: Online Chat Interaction

Abstract

We examine how participants in online math problem-solving chat sessions disattend/attend to postings by other participants and the ways postings are designed to elicit responses from recipients. This is consequential in terms of the design of CSCL systems that use chat as the basis of participant interaction. By developing an understanding of chat-system affordances and structural constraints they place on interaction's moral organization, we can anticipate and address issues related to the achievement of collaboration.

Authors

• Alan Zemel, Drexel University

• Nan Zhou, Drexel University

• Gerry Stahl, Drexel University