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Tangicam: exploring observation tools for children

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Jean-Baptiste Labrune,

Wendy MackayAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '05: Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Interaction design and children

Pages 95 - 102

https://doi.org/10.1145/1109540.1109553

Published: 08 June 2005 Publication History

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This paper describes the design and early evaluation of the Tangicam, or tangible camera, a mobile device for children to capture and edit realistic pictures and videos. Our first experimental results show that the affordances of the Tangicam allow imitation learning and free playing in a context of tangible and augmented reality. Our goal is to create a simple and robust observation system that lets children produce narratives based on situated [51] video, audio and sensor data. We also want to explore how these temporal structures may allow children to describe themselves, other children or natural phenomena and how such situated time series may help develop new forms of synaesthetic and intersubjective constructions.

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