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This talk was given by undergraduate Duri Long during the 10th Annual Computer Science Undergraduate Research Symposium in 2016. Duri‘s research was supervised by Dr. Prasun Dewan.
“Mixed-focus Difficulty-Triggered Collaborative Writing: Architecture, Evaluation, and Visualization”
Many students face difficulty when writing documents due to various reasons such as language barriers, content misunderstanding, or lack of formal writing education. While some resources do exist for students who need help with their writing, many are often too shy or too busy to visit a writing center or speak with a professor during office hours. Technology also falls short in this arena. Asynchronous collaboration systems require students to self-report when they are struggling and many students tend to under-report difficulty. Synchronous collaboration systems eliminate the need for self-reporting, but require teachers to constantly monitor their students. By combining synchronous and asynchronous collaboration paradigms, this project is able to create a mixed-focus collaborative writing system in which students and teachers engage in collaboration only when triggered by an automatically generated event that indicates the student is facing difficulty
Duri Long is a senior graduating with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a second major in dramatic art. Originally from Kansas City, she will be pursuing a doctorate in humancentered computing at Georgia Tech in the fall. In addition to working as an undergraduate teaching assistant, Duri has been involved with CS research for two years. She has worked on projects related to educational technology, collaborative systems, and data visualization.
cs.unc.edu/academics/undergraduate/symposium/symposium-2016/
This talk was given by undergraduate Duri Long during the 10th Annual Computer Science Undergraduate Research Symposium in 2016. Duri‘s research was supervised by Dr. Prasun Dewan.
“Mixed-focus Difficulty-Triggered Collaborative Writing: Architecture, Evaluation, and Visualization”
Many students face difficulty when writing documents due to various reasons such as language barriers, content misunderstanding, or lack of formal writing education. While some resources do exist for students who need help with their writing, many are often too shy or too busy to visit a writing center or speak with a professor during office hours. Technology also falls short in this arena. Asynchronous collaboration systems require students to self-report when they are struggling and many students tend to under-report difficulty. Synchronous collaboration systems eliminate the need for self-reporting, but require teachers to constantly monitor their students. By combining synchronous and asynchronous collaboration paradigms, this project is able to create a mixed-focus collaborative writing system in which students and teachers engage in collaboration only when triggered by an automatically generated event that indicates the student is facing difficulty
Duri Long is a senior graduating with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a second major in dramatic art. Originally from Kansas City, she will be pursuing a doctorate in humancentered computing at Georgia Tech in the fall. In addition to working as an undergraduate teaching assistant, Duri has been involved with CS research for two years. She has worked on projects related to educational technology, collaborative systems, and data visualization.
cs.unc.edu/academics/undergraduate/symposium/symposium-2016/
