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specific document at a glance. More details on Digital Paper Bookmarks and the
corresponding digital representations are given in Section 7.1.
4.4 Collaboration
A further aspect which is essential for gaining new knowledge is collaboration. By
the exchange with other people, knowledge workers can gain new insights and per-
spectives, can critically examine their own understanding and can co-construct a
shared understanding with others.While the functionality of CoScribe is helpful for
individual users, its strength is in supporting collaboration between multiple users.
On the one hand, users can collaborate in a co-located setting, for example in meet-
ings:
Scenario 3 (Learning Group Meeting)
During the weeks before the final exam of
a lecture, Sally regularly meets with two fellow students in an open space at the
library. Together they review the lecture handout and their annotations and discuss
unclear topics. If necessary, they collect further information from textbooks and
Web pages and link these to their lecture handouts. At the end of each meeting, they
collaboratively create a summary of the topics.
In this scenario, several persons use the system at the same time in the same
place. They interact with printed documents on paper and with digital documents
on one or more pen-enabled displays (Fig. 4.5). Each user has his or her own pen.
In this setting, CoScribe is designed for a rather small number of users (about two
up to six users). In a small group, users can physically share their documents.
Fig. 4.5
Co-located collaboration
Even though traditional paper is well suited for many types of co-located col-
laboration, it obstructs remote collaboration, as it is more difficult to share physical
