Classroom BRIDGE

Classroom BRIDGE is a collaborative workspace for long-term project work where distributed teams work asynchronously. Designed around the construct of activity awareness, the software integrates an interactive timeline that shows work history along with calendar tools for future planning. The BRIDGE content tools allow team members to synchronously (at the same time) edit text documents, spreadsheets, structured drawings and other types of content. A version history of changes to that content is visible in the timeline and can be integrated with shared calendars containing deadlines, scheduled meetings, etc.

The Classroom BRIDGE workspace has been used for semester-long middle and high school science projects in Montgomery County, VA, a laboratory study of middle school students doing science projects, and collaborative homeworks in the IST 413 Usability Engineering course, as well as for writing research papers within our research group.

Collaborators: 
Marcela Borge, John M. Carroll, Gregorio Convertino, Philip Isenhour, Hao Jiang, D. Scott McCrickard, Dennis Neale, Mary Beth Rosson, Jacob Somervell
References: 
Carroll, J.M., Rosson, M.B., Convertino, G., and Ganoe, C. H., (2006) Awareness and Teamwork in Computer-Supported Collaborations, Interacting with Computers, vol. 18, no. 1 , January 2006, pp. 21-46.
Ganoe, C.H., Convertino, G., and Carroll, J.M. (2004) The BRIDGE Awareness Workspace: tools supporting activity awareness for collaborative project work, demonstration in Proceedings of the Third Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2004), Tampere, Finland, pp. 453-454.
Ganoe, C. H., Somervell, J. P., Neale, D. C., Isenhour, P. L., Carroll, J. M., Rosson, M. B. and McCrickard, D. S. (2003) Classroom BRIDGE: using collaborative public and desktop timelines to support activity awareness. In Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2003), New York: ACM Press, pp. 21-30.
Ganoe, C. H., Neale, D. C., Somervell, J. P., Carroll, J.M., McCrickard, D. S., Rosson, M.B., Isenhour, P.L., Convertino, G., Dunlap, D.R., Bunn, K., and Davie, P. (2003). Classroom BRIDGE: Providing Activity Awareness in Distributed Group Learning. Learning Technology 5(3).
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