Towards Supporting Phases in Collaborative Writing Processes

  • Hannes Olivier
  • Niels Pinkwart
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 5738)

Abstract

This paper reports on an exploratory pilot study that has been conducted to investigate which collaboration technologies are suitable (and which are not) to support collaborative writing. The study confirmed known requirements covered by existing tools, but also revealed some requirements that are not met by available technologies.

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Collaborative Writing CSCW 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Hannes Olivier
    • 1
  • Niels Pinkwart
    • 1
  1. 1.Institute for InformaticsClausthal University of TechnologyClausthal-ZellerfeldGermany

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