TY - GEN
T1 - ITS in the classroom
T2 - 7th ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, ITS 2012
AU - Mercier, Emma
AU - Higgins, Steven
AU - Burd, Elizabeth
AU - McNaughton, James
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Using interactive surfaces in a classroom requires an understanding of multiple users and stakeholders. While research on how students using tables provides some insight, exploring the roles and needs of the teacher, and the interaction between groups in a classroom, adds an additional dimension to this design challenge. We summarize three years of design and research in a multi-touch classroom, to illuminate some of the issues involved in placing interactive surfaces in the classroom environment. Results indicate that the tables can be used to support joint cognition, that the arrangement of tables in the classroom may influence collaborative interactions, and that allowing the teacher to project content from student tables to a shared interactive whiteboard (IWB) for whole group discussion can facilitate progress within the groups.
AB - Using interactive surfaces in a classroom requires an understanding of multiple users and stakeholders. While research on how students using tables provides some insight, exploring the roles and needs of the teacher, and the interaction between groups in a classroom, adds an additional dimension to this design challenge. We summarize three years of design and research in a multi-touch classroom, to illuminate some of the issues involved in placing interactive surfaces in the classroom environment. Results indicate that the tables can be used to support joint cognition, that the arrangement of tables in the classroom may influence collaborative interactions, and that allowing the teacher to project content from student tables to a shared interactive whiteboard (IWB) for whole group discussion can facilitate progress within the groups.
KW - cscl
KW - device ecology
KW - multi-touch classroom
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U2 - 10.1145/2396636.2396704
DO - 10.1145/2396636.2396704
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871339274
SN - 9781450312097
T3 - ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
SP - 375
EP - 378
BT - ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
Y2 - 11 November 2012 through 14 November 2012
ER -