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Dissertation Information for Kumiko Aoki

NAME:
- Kumiko Aoki

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of Hawaii (USA) (1995)

ADVISORS:
- Dan J. Wedemeyer

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Curtis P. Ho
- Miles Merrill Jackson
- Syed Ataur Rahim
- Gary M. Fontaine

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Intercultural telecollaboration: A field experiment based upon a heuristic telecollaboration model for collaborative writing through the Internet

Abstract: In the information age where societies becoming increasingly interdependent and global, frequently we have to work with people at a distance through communication and information technologies (telecollaboration). The most common form of such collaboration has been collaborative writing in which more than two people create a document collaboratively through computer-mediated communication. Drawing from the literature on computer-mediated communication, computer-supported cooperative work, virtual reality, collaborative learning, and cross-cultural communication, a heuristic model of telecollaboration was proposed and based on the model, a field experiment was designed and conducted from September 27, 1994, to December 9, 1994. In the field experiment, participants in the University of Hawaii and participants in Nanzan University, Japan, formed groups of four consisting of two students in Hawaii and two students in Japan. They were assigned to write a research paper on the topic the group selected. There were two sessions during the entire course; each session lasted five weeks to complete one collaborative research paper. The study examined the effects of such variables as the individual typing skill, the English composition skill, independent/interdependent self-construal, cultural orientation, and the use of videoconferencing, on communication frequency among group members and the perceived quality of group performance as well as the quality of the final paper produced by the group. The results showed that those who had videoconferencing exchanged fewer e-mail messages while showing more group cohesiveness. Individual skills such as typing skills and writing skills were found to have effects on the number of e-mail messages sent and the quality of final group papers. Implications of the research findings in the model were discussed and recommendations for future research were made.


MPACT Scores for Kumiko Aoki

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ADVISEES:
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COMMITTEESHIPS:
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