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SUMMARY:Multi-touch versus single touch: which is best for supporting coll
 aborative learning?  
DTSTART:20090624T141500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Yvonne Rogers\, The Open University\, UK\nRecently\, the
 re has been much interest in how tabletops can support collaborative learn
 ing. Smart Table has now reached the classroom. Several claims have been m
 ade about the benefits of providing multi-touch horizontal interfaces incl
 uding encouraging more equitable participation than vertical surfaces and 
 reduced social awkwardness compared to PCs. The shared interactive surface
  - that allows more than one person to interact with digital content simul
 taneously - is assumed to provide new opportunities for groups of children
  to learn together. As part of our research on the ShareIT project we have
  been conducting studies that have been investigating these claims. In one
  of our studies\, we compared groups of children working around a multi-to
 uch surface - where all children could interact with the digital content -
  versus a multi-touch tabletop which was constrained so that only one chil
 d could interact with it at a given time. The task involved planning and d
 esigning a classroom layout. Our findings showed that children talked more
  about their designs in the multiple-touch condition than they did in the 
 single-touch condition. However\, in the single-touch condition\, talk abo
 ut turn taking was more frequent and appeared to replace discussion about 
 design. Hence\, it seems\, that while multi-touch can facilitate collabora
 tion\, forcing children to take turns rather than allowing for a free-for-
 all can result in more awareness of the other children's interactions.  In
  my talk\, I will discuss reasons for this. I will finish by describing ou
 r design framework that considers the effects of constraining a collaborat
 ive learning activity either by encouraging\, enabling or enforcing\, in t
 erms of the physical space\, the technology\, the software and the learnin
 g task.\nProf. Roger's homepage
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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