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The effect of tangible interfaces on children's collaborative behaviour (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanton, D., Bayon, V., Abnett, C., Cobb, S., & O'Malley, C. (2002, December). The effect of tangible interfaces on children's collaborative behaviour. Presented at Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; Minneapolis, MN; United States

The physical nature of the classroom means that children are continually divided into small groups. The present study examined collaboration on a story creation task using technologies believed to encourage and support collaborative behaviour. Four c... Read More about The effect of tangible interfaces on children's collaborative behaviour.

Things aren't what they seem to be: Innovation through technology inspiration (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rogers, Y., Scaife, M., Harris, E., Phelps, T., Price, S., Smith, H., Muller, H., Randell, C., Moss, A., Taylor, I., Stanton, D., O'Malley, C., Corke, G., & Gabrielli, S. (2002, December). Things aren't what they seem to be: Innovation through technology inspiration. Presented at 4th Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS '02; London; United Kingdom

How does designing for novel experiences with largely untried technologies get its inspiration? Here we report on a project whose goal was to promote learning through novel, playful visions of technologies. To this end, we experimented with a diversi... Read More about Things aren't what they seem to be: Innovation through technology inspiration.