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Automated Writing Process Analysis
Published in Duanli Yan, André A. Rupp, Peter W. Foltz, Handbook of Automated Scoring, 2020
Many digital writing tools provide support for collaborative writing. As word processing technologies have matured, typical offerings have come to include the ability to track text changes, approve or reject proposed changes, and put comments on the text. Some technologies such as Google Docs directly support simultaneous editing by a group of collaborators, which has made it attractive as a classroom tool for project-based learning (Chu, Kennedy, & Mak, 2009) and collaborative writing (Blau & Caspi, 2009). In addition, many online learning-support systems include tools that enable peer review as well as teacher review. Peer review plays a critical role in improving student writing performance (Graham & Perin, 2007). Moreover, it can readily be measured in an online system where hundreds or thousands student reviews and peer evaluations can be compared and analyzed (Cho & MacArthur, 2010; Moxley & Eubanks, 2015).
Designing for interpersonal motor synchronization
Published in Human–Computer Interaction, 2022
Michal Rinott, Noam Tractinsky
Temporality plays an important role in computer-mediated communication (CMC). A traditional distinction between CMC tools (e.g., Walther, 2011) relates to their temporal usage. Synchronous CMC enables parties to communicate simultaneously in real-time, like a co-present conversation; asynchronous tools enable (or constrain) participants to interact with each other with a time lag, using media such as text and recorded audio and video (Nowak et al., 2017). Recent developments blur these boundaries, providing support for synchronous communication even within predominantly asynchronous tools. For example, while instant messaging and chat environments are fundamentally a-synchronous, they are often used for near real-time text-based conversations. Shared document editors, code versioning, and other project management software are a-synchronous but provide increasing support for synchronous use, for example, Google Docs allows simultaneous editing of a document, displaying the editing partner’s actions in real-time and adding tools for real-time communication.
Exploring users’ experiences of using personal cloud storage services: a phenomenological study
Published in Behaviour & Information Technology, 2018
Kimia Ghaffari, Mohammad Lagzian
There are a variety of PCSSs (such as Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Mega, iCloud, SkyDrive, etc.) with different free and non-free capacities that users can utilise depending on their needs and budget. According to the existing reports, Dropbox with more than 100 million users is the most popular PCSS (Amrehn et al. 2013). It is a cloud service which enables users to access and update their files from different devices. Files of any type can be stored and shared through Dropbox (Drago et al. 2012). Google Drive is a cloud storage service by which files can be stored, synchronised across different devices, and shared to others. Google Docs, as a kind of Google Drive, works as a cloud repository which can be accessed by any web-connected device. Google Docs users have the ability to share different types of files with others, and edit the shared Microsoft office documents simultaneously (Tornyai and Kertesz 2014).