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Mobile collaboration: collaboratively reading and creating children's stories on mobile devices

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Jerry Alan Fails,

Mona Leigh GuhaAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 20 - 29

https://doi.org/10.1145/1810543.1810547

Published: 09 June 2010 Publication History

Abstract

This paper discusses design iterations of Mobile Stories - a mobile technology that empowers children to collaboratively read and create stories. We present the design and discuss the impact of different collocated collaborative configurations for mobile devices including: content splitting and space sharing. We share design experiences that illustrate how Mobile Stories supports collaboration and mobility, and identify how the collocated collaborative configurations are best suited for reading and sharing tasks. We also identify how creative tasks foster more mobility and dynamic interactions between collaborators.

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