@inproceedings{80991c01a4dd43b989af359433fcac22,
title = "Connected spaces: Helping makers know their neighbors",
abstract = "This paper presents Connected Spaces (C-S) - a tool designed to promote collaboration in makerspaces. It also describes a pilot study designed to test C-S's effectiveness in enabling people to seek help from peers. In our pilot, some (but not all) students were able to leverage C-S's affordances. We explore both supporting and mitigating factors, and highlight design features for environments as well as tools to support divergent, open-ended exploration and learning.",
keywords = "Collaboration, Communication, Constructionism, Expertise, Help, Help-seeking, Makerspaces, Scaffolding",
author = "Vishesh Kumar and Mike Tissenbaum and Lauren Weilgus and Matthew Berland",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).; 16th International ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2017 ; Conference date: 27-06-2017 Through 30-06-2017",
year = "2017",
month = jun,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1145/3078072.3084335",
language = "English (US)",
series = "IDC 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "629--635",
booktitle = "IDC 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children",
address = "United States",
}