Material mediation in collaborative activity
| dc.contributor.author | Bødker, Susanne | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Hoggan, Eve | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Larsen-Ledet, Ida | en |
| dc.contributor.funder | Horizon 2020 | en |
| dc.contributor.funder | Seventh Framework Programme | en |
| dc.contributor.funder | Innovationsfonden | en |
| dc.contributor.funder | European Research Council | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-26T12:17:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-26T12:17:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-04-26 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The material qualities of technological mediators are vital to collaborative activity, but current paradigms for collaboration support leave the potential of material mediation largely untapped. The HCI literature addresses both material mediation for individuals and coordination between collaborators - but rarely does it discuss the more direct role of the material as standing between people: its communicative role. This paper unfolds a material/linguistic analysis of four empirical examples from previous work on collaborative writing to showcase how material qualities of both tools and the text-in-progress, used in both planned and improvised manners, help co-authors shift between levels of collaboration, from independent co-ordinated activity to highly collaborative co-constructive activity. On one hand, we see co-authors successfully collaborating through material means; on the other, we see frustrations resulting from limited material expressivity in current tools. This duality between the significance of material mediation and obstacles to drawing on its potential makes clear that our conception of materiality needs elaboration. We point to multimodality as one opportunity for this. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Innovationsfonden (Project DIREC 9142-00001B); European Research Council (ERC-AdG 740548 “CIO: Common Interactive Objects”) | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.articleid | 207 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bødker, S., Hoggan, E. and Larsen-Ledet, I. (2024) 'Material mediation in collaborative activity', Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1), 207 (24pp). https://doi.org/10.1145/3653698 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1145/3653698 | en |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2573-0142 | en |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 24 | en |
| dc.identifier.issued | CSCW1 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/16459 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 8 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | en |
| dc.rights | © 2024, the Authors. Publication rights licensed to ACM. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. | en |
| dc.subject | Material | en |
| dc.subject | Collaboration | en |
| dc.subject | Mediation | en |
| dc.subject | Activity theory | en |
| dc.title | Material mediation in collaborative activity | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
