Dynamic Spatial Positioning: Physical Collaboration around Interactive Table by Children in India

Jamil, Izdihar; O’Hara, Kenton; Perry, Mark; Karnik, Abhijit; Marshall, Mark T.; Jha, Swathi; Gupta, Sanjay; Subramanian, Sriram

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_11

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“…This is particularly because F-formations are shown to be linked to group collaboration behaviors that help facilitate learning such as information sharing and group discussion [17]. While prior work has used F-formations as a conceptual lens to understand group collaboration around large flatscreen displays [4], these findings cannot be directly applied to spherical displays. The spherical form factor can allow users to arrange themselves, share information, and communicate around it in unique ways as compared to flatscreen displays [2].…”

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Designing Interactions for Multi-touch Spherical Displays to Support Collaborative Learning in Museums

Soni

2020

Companion Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces

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Spherical displays are increasingly being used to present global data visualizations to support Earth science education in informal learning settings such as museums. However, most spherical displays deployed to date either support no interactivity or interaction only via an external touchscreen. Only recently have spherical displays become commercially available that can support multi-touch gesture interactivity. Family groups visiting museums can gather around these displays to collaboratively explore global science datasets simultaneously. However, the use of multi-touch spherical displays as an educational tool is relatively new and a deeper knowledge of how to design interactions for spherical touch surfaces to support collaborative learning has not been explored yet. Through my thesis work, I will explore how to design gestural interactions for multi-touch spherical displays to support collaborative learning from interactive science data visualizations in museums.

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“…TIDESS tabletop prototype[9,14].Doctoral ConsortiumISS '20 Companion, November 8-11, 2020, Virtual Event, Portugal collaboration and learning around large interactive displays[4]…”

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Designing Interactions for Multi-touch Spherical Displays to Support Collaborative Learning in Museums

Soni

2020

Companion Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces

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“…Their size has the potential to accommodate more people in front or around the display. Thus, they can stimulate simultaneous participation in learning activities, promote engagement, allow to share control and responsibility over the manipulation of learning material [8]. However, more empirical evidence is needed to better understand the collaborative practices of learners around a large display and how such practices are organised and managed by learners.…”

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Pupils’ collaboration around a large display

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Ardito

Costabile

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International Conferences on Distributed Multimedia Systems

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Collaboration is acknowledged as a key element of learning. Thus, it is valuable to develop Information and Communication Technology applications that, being implemented on proper devices, can support collaborative learning. Large multi-touch displays appear to encourage collaboration by offering users a shared environment to act upon. However, little knowledge is available on the actual influence of this technology on human behavior and more empirical evidence is needed to better understand its capability to foster collaboration. This paper provides a contribution in this direction by presenting a field study that helps understand collaborative practices of pupils playing an educational game that runs on a multi-touch large display. This study involved 98 fifth-graders at a primary school (average age 10 years old). Results confirmed the potential of large displays as useful devices for collaborative learning.

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Collaboration around Multi-touch Spherical Displays: A Field Study at a Science Museum

Soni

Tierney

Jurczyk

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Multi-touch spherical displays that enable groups of people to collaboratively interact are increasingly being used in informal learning settings such as museums. Prior research on large flatscreen displays has examined group collaboration patterns in museum settings to inform the design of group learning experiences around these displays. However, previous research has shown differences in how users conceptualize interacting with spherical and flatscreen displays, thereby making it important to separately investigate how groups naturally collaborate around spherical displays in a museum setting. The spherical form factor of the display affords new forms of collaboration: unlike flatscreen displays, spherical displays do not have a definite front or center, thus intrinsically creating both shared and private touch interaction areas on the display based on users' viewing angles or physical arrangements. We conducted a 5-day long field study at a local science museum during which 571 visitors (370 adults and 201 children) in 211 groups interacted with a walk-up-and-use collaborative learning application showing global science data visualizations, on a multi-touch spherical display. We qualitatively analyzed groups' natural collaboration patterns including their physical arrangements (F-formations), their collaboration profiles (e.g., turn-taker or independent), and the nature of group discussion around the display. Our results show that groups often engaged in both independent as well as closely collaborative group explorations when interacting around the sphere: physical spacing between group members around the sphere was strongly linked to the way groups collaborated. It was less common for group members to make and accept suggestions or coordinate touch interactions when they did not share the same fields-of-view or touch interaction space with each other around the sphere. We discuss implications for supporting group collaboration in this context which will inform the design of future walk-up-and-use multi-touch spherical display applications for use in public settings.

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Dynamic Spatial Positioning: Physical Collaboration around Interactive Table by Children in India

Cited by 3 publications

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Designing Interactions for Multi-touch Spherical Displays to Support Collaborative Learning in Museums

Designing Interactions for Multi-touch Spherical Displays to Support Collaborative Learning in Museums

Pupils’ collaboration around a large display

Collaboration around Multi-touch Spherical Displays: A Field Study at a Science Museum

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