Phase 1: Vocabulary Creation

5 measures used in this study: time, effort, granularity, atomicity, and sourcing potential.
* Time is measured by measure how much time it takes for people to make the plans with and without vocabulary
* Effort they used the NASA-Task Load Index questionnaire to ask certain questions about a task
* Granularity is the number of steps generated per plan
* Atomicity is the number of steps that are done with little cognitive effort and need for context
* Sourcing potential is the number of steps that can be crowd or self sourced

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Purpose of the paper is to "incorporate the benefits of having action plans in the complex domain of writing, while mitigating the time and effort costs of creating plans"
3 phases:
* 1. using a data driven qualitative coding of 264 comments to compile a vocabulary of 18 functions for writing tasks using comments on wikipedia articles and academic papers.
* 2. see how plans are created using the vocabulary and comparing using vocabulary plans to create unstructured plans which are plans that are made without aids. The two settings they are looking at this is an online study and a lab study.
* 3. to see how useful the plans are, they ask people what is there preferred method of accomplishing a task which is comments, the unstructured plan or the vocabulary plan.

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