Dehler Zufferey, Jessica; Bodemer, Daniel; Buder, Jürgen; Hesse, Friedrich W.:
Partner knowledge awareness in knowledge communication: Learning by adapting to the partner
In: The journal of experimental education : JExE, Vol. 79 (2011), No. 1, pp. 102 - 125
2011article/chapter in journal
Applied Cognitive Science
Title:
Partner knowledge awareness in knowledge communication: Learning by adapting to the partner
Author:
Dehler Zufferey, Jessica;Bodemer, DanielUDE
GND
1084663724
LSF ID
53985
ORCID
0000-0003-2515-683XORCID iD
Other
connected with university
;
Buder, Jürgen;Hesse, Friedrich W.
Year of publication:
2011

Abstract:

Awareness of the knowledge of learning partners is not always sufficiently available in collaborative learning scenarios. To compensate, the authors propose to provide collaborators with partner knowledge awareness by means of a visualization tool. Partner knowledge awareness can be used to adapt messages toward the partner. This study investigated the cognitive consequences of message adaptation on producers. The authors chose a simulated collaboration scenario in order to dissociate the producer effect from recipient and collaboration effects. Results on 42 participants that had been randomly assigned to either the partner knowledge awareness condition (partner and own knowledge visualized) or the control condition (only own knowledge visualized) are reported here. Participants in the partner knowledge awareness condition adapted their contributions according to the visualized partner's knowledge and benefited with regard to the acquisition of elaborated knowledge. (Contains 5 tables and 1 figure.)