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It's just a toolbar!: using tangibles to help children manage conflict around a multi-touch tabletop

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Izabel C. Olson,

Zeina Atrash Leong,

Mike S. HornAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '11: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction

Pages 29 - 36

https://doi.org/10.1145/1935701.1935709

Published: 22 January 2010 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we present a case study of children's collaborative behavior around a multi-touch tabletop interface. The study includes data from four sessions with four children over a period of three weeks. The children in our study exhibited a diverse set of collaborative behaviors including territorial control of screen real estate, conflict over interface elements, and turn taking behavior, all of which seemed related to specific aspects of the interface design. Most notably, we observed conflict relating to a graphical toolbar that the children could drag around the screen. After observing this conflict, we redesigned the interface so that children were forced to use a tangible object (a wooden block) to make the toolbar appear on the screen. This tangible object seemed to help the children resolve their conflict and to promote spontaneous turn taking behavior. This paper is an effort to understand why the graphical toolbar alone seemed to spur conflict and why the introduction of a tangible object seemed to help children resolve the conflict on their own

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TEI '11: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction

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DOI:10.1145/1935701

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