Improving Collaboration Through Embodied Design and Dynamic Feedback

• In Event: Collaborative Reasoning and Social Processes in Education and Psychology

Abstract

Communities often rely on groups rather than individuals for making important decisions and solving complex problems. The expectation is that by working together, individuals will pool their knowledge, skills and abilities to make better decisions than those made by individuals acting on their own. But group interactions are complicated by social factors that limit such pooling and result in individuals withholding information. In this context, understanding how to strengthen youth skills for collaboration is intriguing. Design-based research methods are used to make an initial investigation into the potential of social visualizations to support development of collaboration skills in digital contexts. The larger goal is to support collaborative problem solving by providing real time information and feedback on participants’ social performances.

Authors

• Seth Corrigan, GlassLab Games

• Constance Yowell