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Hide and Seek: A LEGO Village Game for Developing Spatial Ability of Children

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TaeYang Lee,

Woori Noh,

Yeji Kim,

Jun Dong ChoAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '16: Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 408 - 413

https://doi.org/10.1145/2930674.2930715

Published: 21 June 2016 Publication History

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Spatial ability is one of mental ability which grounds children's educational development critically, and is used in whole dimensions of our life in conjunction with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) learning. In this paper, we present a gamification tool socalled "Hide and Seek" which nourishes spatial ability. A child seeks a place where a tagger is hidden by comparing Lego village and the corresponding picture taken by the tagger. A concept of this game is comparing the 2-dimensional flat surface of the picture and 3-dimensional Lego village. We conducted user tests of Hide and Seek with children. The aims of user test are observing usability, usage of spatial language and game elements while children are playing the game. From the test, we observed spatial cognition factor and dialogues used during problem solving and usability. Based on the results, we also derived additional concept refinements of the presented educational game system.

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Hide and Seek: A LEGO Village Game for Developing Spatial Ability of Children
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IDC '16: Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

June 2016

774 pages

ISBN:9781450343138

DOI:10.1145/2930674

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University of Central Lancashire, UK
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BBC Research & Development, UK

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