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This work is concerned with an analysis of how shared representations – notations that are manipulated by more than one person during a collaborative task – are used as resources to support that collaboration. The analysis is built on the concept of “informational uptake”: how information moves and is transformed between individuals via a graphical representation as well as a verbal “chat” tool. By examining patterns of such uptake, one can see ways in which the activity of two individuals is coupled and joined into a larger cognitive (and sometimes knowledge-building) activity distributed across the persons and representations they are manipulating.
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Suthers, D.D. (2004). Towards an Analysis of How Shared Representations Are Manipulated to Mediate Online Synchronous Collaboration. In: Lester, J.C., Vicari, R.M., Paraguaçu, F. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3220. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30139-4_110
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