The interactive shared educational environment: user interface, system architecture and field study

• DOI: 10.5555/827140.827190
• Publication Date: 2003-05-27
• Authors: Xiangming Mu; Gary Marchionini; Amy Pattee
• Keywords: Hyperlink; Presentation (obstetrics); Component (thermodynamics)

The user interface and system architecture of a novel Interactive Shared Educational Environment (ISEE) are presented. Based on lightweight infrastructure, ISEE enables relatively low bandwidth network users to share videos as well text messages. Smartlink is new concept introduced in this paper. Individual information presentation components, like the video player chat room, smartly linked together through timestamps hyperlinks. A field study related children book selections using was conducted. results indicated that combination three including with storyboard, shared browser, provided an effective more comfortable collaboration learning environment for given tasks than reviews or alone combination. most preferred component. Text comments room did not synchronize content distracted some participants due limited cognitive capacity. Using smartlink various components channels our attempt reduce user's working memory load enriched distance environments made possible by digital libraries.