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Children designing together on a multi-touch tabletop: an analysis of spatial orientation and user interactions

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IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 106 - 114

https://doi.org/10.1145/1551788.1551807

Published: 03 June 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Applications running on multi-touch tabletops are beginning to be developed to enable children to collaborate on a variety of activities, from photo sharing to playing games. However, little is know as to how children work together on such interactive surfaces. We present a study that investigated groups of children's use of a multitouch tabletop for a shared-space design task, requiring reasoning and compromise. The OurSpace application was designed to allow children to arrange the desks in their classroom and allocate students to seats around those desks. A number of findings are reported, including a comparison of single versus multiple touch, equity of participation, and an analysis of how a child's tabletop position affects where he or she touches. A main finding was that children used all of the tabletop surface, but took more responsibility for the parts of the design closer to their relative position.

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Children designing together on a multi-touch tabletop: an analysis of spatial orientation and user interactions
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing

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IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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DOI:10.1145/1551788

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