Access to Real-Time Typing Shapes Perception of a Collaborator’s Work Quality

EasyChair Preprint 8453

Abstract

Online shared workspaces provide real-time access to others’ work as it is being written. Given that typing patterns are shaped by stress and cognitive load, access to an online partner’s real-time typing behaviors may also inform perceptions of another’s epistemic state more broadly, influencing judgments of their task contributions. Participants completed a joint editing task with a “partner” whose edits were pre-recorded to be delivered fluently or disfluently. Participants then rated the partner’s edited sentences. Our results show that visible typing dynamics in an online workspace can influence perception of writing quality.

Keyphrases: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, paralinguistic cues, shared workspaces

@booklet{EasyChair:8453,
  author    = {Arielle Elliott and William Horton},
  title     = {Access to Real-Time Typing Shapes Perception of a Collaborator’s Work Quality},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 8453},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2022}}