Iestyn has a had a trip to the seaside! RE:FORM was invited to present our work at the prestiguous Design Research Society 2016 international conference, this year held in Brighton, UK. Iestyn presented our work with a paper “Communication is not collaboration: observations from a case study in collaborative learning”. In this paper, we talked about the challenges our participants had faced in the summer school, and analysed some of the online forum posts. We identified different communication styles, and recognised that in some cases one or other partner was dominant, and there was more or less collaboration as a result. We’re going to take this work forwards and explore how we might better support distance collaboration in online making: get in touch if you’d like to work with us!
Jowers, Iestyn; Gaved, Mark; Elliott-Cirigottis, Gary; Dallison, Delphine; Rochead, Alan and Craig, Mark (2016). Communication is not collaboration: observations from a case study in collaborative learning. In: Proceedings of DRS 2016, Design Research Society 50th Anniversary Conference (Lloyd, Peter and Bohemia, Erik eds.), Brighton, UK, pp. 609–624.