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2010-05 |
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abstract |
Many research projects involve teams of researchers working together to create shared
outputs that advance the state-of-the-art knowledge in a particular field. Often,
such teams are distributed geographically, with members drawn from different institutions
and different domains of expertise. In an increasingly networked world, researchers
are presented with a variety of ways to connect with each other, and it is often assumed
that because it is easy to link-up together, that effective collaboration will follow.
This is not always the case. Just because we have access to collaborative technologies
does not mean that we will necessarily use them, or that if we do use them, that we
will be able to do so effectively.
This is a particularly important issue for pan-European projects who assemble partners
not only from different institutions, but also from different, and sometimes conflicting
methodological traditions. Bringing together research partners from diverse research
domains presents both opportunities and challenges. Partners need to learn from each
other so that they can collectively produce a finished product that uses their combined
knowledge to push the research boundaries. However it can be difficult to work together
across disciplines, to develop a shared vocabulary and understanding, and to overcome
the barriers of distance and language in order to collaborate effectively.
This paper describes how the challenges of interdisciplinarity and distance are being
addressed on an EU funded project, xDelia. xDelia stands for Xcellence in Decision-making
through Enhanced Learning in Immersive Applications. It aims to use wearable sensors
and serious games to identify and address the effects of emotional regulation in financial
decision making in three fields; professional trading, private investment and personal
finance. Over a period of three years, partners from seven institutions will work
together, sharing their expertise in financial decision making, games design, cognitive
science and bio-sensor technologies. In order to collaborate effectively, partners
need to achieve a shared understanding of their common goals and of what each research
team can contribute. This paper describes the practical, participatory approach adopted
by the xDelia team, demonstrating how the collaborative knowledge sharing activities
initiated at the start of the project have resulted in a range of collaborations,
and analysing the role that mediating artefacts such as collaborative technologies
have played in supporting this knowledge creation. |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/10700 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/15228 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/19836 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/5399 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/5400 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/650526 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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label |
Clough, Gill ; Conole, Gráinne and Scanlon, Eileen (2010). Using participatory
evaluation to support collaboration in an interdisciplinary context. In: Proceedings
of the Seventh International Conference on Networked Learning 2010, 3-4 May 2010,
Aalborg, Denmark. |
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label |
Clough, Gill ; Conole, Gráinne and Scanlon, Eileen (2010). Using participatory
evaluation to support collaboration in an interdisciplinary context. In: Proceedings
of the Seventh International Conference on Networked Learning 2010, 3-4 May 2010,
Aalborg, Denmark. |
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Using participatory evaluation to support collaboration in an interdisciplinary context |
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oro |