Interaction on Other Collaboration

This visualisation shows the instances where participants interacted with an object which was not created by them during each task, as well as coded tightly-coupled collaboration and presentation phases.

The aim of this visualisation was to see when these interactions occurred, and if they were as a result of tightly-coupled collaboration or if participants ever "stole" a visualisation/panel from another person.

Dots and squares are discrete actions (e.g. panel button click) and continuous actions (e.g. grab then release) respectively. Black are those which occurred during tightly-coupled or presentation phases, using a 2 second buffer to account for misalignment between video and trace data timings. Red are those which occurred outside of these phases.

Light blue bars are tightly-coupled collaboration phases involving that participant. Darker blue bars are presentation phases which occurred only during FET.

There are numerous things of note in this visualisation, however most of them require additional context by looking at the video itself:

• Some groups worked individually for long periods of times, other groups worked together for almost the entire task(s).

• Some groups didn't even interact on objects which did not belong to them.

• These interactions generally occurred inside of tightly-coupled collaboration phases, with some which occurred outside

• The interactions occurring outside appear to either be at the start or the of the task. This was for some clear reasons:

  • Interactions at the end of the task either were participants messing around when the task was over, or due to the coding process not including when participants were giving their answer

  • Interactions at the start of the task were groups "cleaning up" visualisations scattered around the environment from the previous task.

Code

Based on ActionData and CodingData.

We needed to exclude actions which did not account for ownership, such as drawing with annotations. For each of the remaining actions, we keep only those that was performed on another participant's object, and then determine whether or not they occurred during tightly-coupled collaboration or not:

We then plot using ggplot2 to create the version for the supplemental material (seen on this page):