Two-way play: early learners' experiences with bi-directional television
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Abstract
Microsoft Studios recently released Kinect Sesame Street TV, a new form of viewership for television that merges traditional means of watching episodes with game-like physical actions via the Xbox and Kinect. This paper presents an overview and early findings of an initial pilot study that took place during my research internship at Microsoft Research where I investigated how ideas of embodied cognition and comprehension could be leveraged to understand the experiences of young viewers, and explore the ways in which bidirectional television can facilitate new meaning-making. The data from this pilot study provides the corpus from which I ask additional research questions for my dissertation. The new questions qualitatively probe the ways participants demonstrated conceptual understanding, roles of co-viewing in embodied programming and knowledge performance, and issues in developing mediated assessments for early learners.
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