User:Simon/Etherpad timed writing/editing experiment

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Description of task

In November 2018, I experimented with a timed writing task using Etherpad, a collaborative realtime browser-based text editor. Etherpad automatically assigns authorship colours to users. I kept writing and opening up new private tabs in my browser to give each iteration new authorship colors. These are lost when exported, so I recreated the text and authorship colours to make the following visualisation:

Method

The method was to begin writing a text about what I was doing (writing and editing at the same time). I began by establishing writing periods of 3 minutes, and a rest period of 2 minutes. After 6 iterations, this shifted to 5 minutes for both respectively.

The entire text, recreated with authorship colours

Isolated outcomes

Each iteration is isolated in the following visualisations:

18 11 21 Pad difs 910.jpg 18 11 21 Pad difs 915.jpg 18 11 21 Pad difs 920.jpg 18 11 21 Pad difs 925.jpg 18 11 21 Pad difs 930.jpg 18 11 21 Pad difs 940.jpg 18 11 21 Pad difs 950.jpg 18 11 21 Pad difs 1000.jpg 18 11 21 Pad difs colours.jpg

The authorship colours with text removed:

18 11 21 Pad difs colours all.jpg