Introduction

iDeas is a WGLN (Wallenberg Global Learning Network) supported collaboration between the IT University of Göteborg and Stanford University. This is the page presenting the projects made at ITU.

The persons who are or have been involved in the project:

Lars Erik Holmquist
Johan Lundin
Mattias Rost
Barry Brown
Gustav Lymer
Kim Grahn Dahlberg

Publications

• Lymer, G., Lundin, J., Brown, B., Rost, M. and Holmquist, L E. Web based platforms in co-located practice – The use of a wiki as support for learning and instruction. In Proceedings of CSCL 2007 (New Brunswick, USA).
• Brown, B., Lundin, J., Rost, M., Lymer, G., Holmquist, L E. Seeing Ethnographically: Teaching Ethnography as Part of CSCW. In proceedings of ECSCW 2007 (Limerick, Ireland).
• Lymer, G. & Lundin, J. Formulating text: The practice of commenting in academic writing instruction. Paper presented at the EARLI Conference, August 28 - September 1 2007, Budapest, Hungary.
• Rost, M., Holmquist, L E. Tools for Students Doing Mobile Fieldwork. To appear in proceedings of WMUTE 2008 (Beijing, China).

Tools

In a course teaching ethnography and design where students work in groups studying a workplace of their choice, we have experimented with having a wiki to support the students. They used the wiki to type in their field notes, put up their work plans, and upload other material gathered in the field, such as photos and drawings. The wiki thus served as a group repository, allowing the individuals to collect their own material as well as get access to their group’s material. Having your material in one place was highly beneficial compared to having it spread out on the group members’ personal computers. Users could access the material from anywhere as long as they had access to a web browser, and they could link the material directly to individual wiki pages and discuss it. A result from this we have built additional tools for the wiki to support various aspects of the students work.

• Mobile Capturing Tool - a mobile application for capturing data to be uploaded to a server.
• Media Browser - a wiki plugin for browsing uploaded data content.
• Awareness Visualizer - a wiki plugin for visualizing activity in the wiki.