Writing apart and designing together
Andrew L. Cohen, Debra Cash, Michael J. Muller, Curtis Culberson · 1999
We report a qualitative study of collaboration in writing and presentation preparation. We highlight one important difference identified between the collaborative writing and the construction of presentations: When collaborating on documents, co-authors seldom constructed text synchronously. However, when collaborating on presentations, co-authors commonly engaged in synchronous construction of presentations. We conclude that tools supporting collaborative writing and presentation-development should provide real-time manipulation for presentation development, but for collaborative writing shared viewing and annotation may be sufficient.