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Quantifying Children's Engagement with Educational Tangible Blocks

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TEI '17: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Pages 389 - 395

https://doi.org/10.1145/3024969.3025062

Published: 20 March 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Playful learning is a powerful method to enhance children's engagement with teaching material, often resulting in better learning. Several prior works demonstrated the existence of a relation between tangibles and engagement, but they did not characterize it with specific measures. Therefore, this paper aims to describe the degree of engagement with tangible blocks by quantifying children's proactive and passive actions during a learning session. Based on a user study with 36 kindergarten children, our findings show that tangibles support a higher degree of engagement, fosters attention and collaboration, and possibly lead to more active learning.

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Quantifying Children's Engagement with Educational Tangible Blocks
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing

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TEI '17: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

March 2017

806 pages

ISBN:9781450346764

DOI:10.1145/3024969

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Saarland University, Germany
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Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA
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Keio University, Japan
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Keio University, Japan

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3583961.3583965
Tarlinton DVickery NWang YKnight LBlackler A(2022)Identifying Factors of Young Children's Engagement in Active Play to Inform the Design of TEIs.Proceedings of the 34th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3572921.3576204(97-110)Online publication date: 29-Nov-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3572921.3576204
Li YLiang MPreissing JBachl NDutoit MWeber TMayer SHussmann H(2022)A Meta-Analysis of Tangible Learning Studies from the TEI ConferenceProceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3490149.3501313(1-17)Online publication date: 13-Feb-2022
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