This paper examines territorial functioning in collaborative writing through a mixed methods study involving interviews and analysis of collaboratively authored documents. Our findings have implications for the way we think about collaborative writing as a design problem, in that current conceptualizations of collaborative writing emphasize the work context rather than the work itself, at the cost of understanding interpersonal dynamics that are central to the common process. The findings come from 23 interviews with 32 university researchers and students regarding their experiences with collaborative writing of academic texts. The analysis of these interviews is supplemented with visualizations of the revision histories of documents written by a subset of the study participants. We discuss our findings in terms of fragmented exchanges in common information spaces and consider the shared document as a mediator for the simultaneous accomplishment and negotiation of work.

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合作写作中的地域功能

本文通过混合方法研究（包括访谈和合作撰写文档的分析）来研究合作写作中的地域功能。我们的发现对我们将协作写作作为一种设计问题的方式产生了影响，因为当前的协作写作概念化着重于工作环境而不是工作本身，其代价是理解了对共同过程至关重要的人际关系动态。调查结果来自对32位大学研究人员和学生进行的23次采访，内容涉及他们合作撰写学术论文的经历。这些访谈的分析辅以一部分研究参与者撰写的文档修订历史的可视化记录。