Investigating class conversations with classtalk

Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio, Mehdi Rizvi

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Abstract

Interactive tangible objects can help orchestrate conversations in school classes. If such tangibles are created with a meta-design approach, for the specific context of their users, they evolve according to their usage. Specifically, tangible object prototypes are created; prototypes are adopted by their users in ecological studies; their usage is reflected over by users and designers to investigate design possibilities, which are rapidly prototyped and again adopted by users. This paper reports on the meta-design and latest evolution of ClassTalk, a tangible for conversations in primary school classes. It shows how new design ideas emerged by making users adopt ClassTalk prototypes, and by moving designers into users’ context.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450356169
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 May 2018
Event14th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2018 - Grosseto, Italy
Duration: 29 May 20181 Jun 2018

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2018
Abbreviated titleAVI 2018
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityGrosseto
Period29/05/181/06/18

Keywords

  • Children
  • Class
  • Conversation
  • Evolutionary prototyping
  • Meta-design
  • Tangible
  • Teachers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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