- Title
- Towards a teacher-centric approach for multi-touch surfaces in classrooms
- Creator
- AlAgha, Iyad; Hatch, Andrew; Ma, Linxiao; Burd, Liz
- Relation
- ITS '10: ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS 2010) (Saarbrücken, Germany 7-10 November, 2010) p. 187-196
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1936652.1936688
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- The potential of tabletops to enable simultaneous interaction and face-to-face collaboration can provide novel learning opportunities. Despite significant research in the area of collaborative learning around tabletops, little attention has been paid to the integration of multi-touch surfaces into classroom layouts and how to employ this technology to facilitate teacher-learner dialogue and teacher-led activities across multi-touch surfaces. While most existing techniques focus on the collaboration between learners, this work aims to gain a better understanding of practical challenges that need to be considered when integrating multi-touch surfaces into classrooms. It presents a multi-touch interaction technique, called TablePortal, which enables teachers to manage and monitor collaborative learning on students' tables. Early observations of using the proposed technique within a novel classroom consisting of networked multi-touch surfaces are discussed. The aim was to explore the extent to which our design choices facilitate teacher-learner dialogue and assist the management of classroom activity.
- Subject
- multi-touch tabletop; remote access; classroom
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057970
- Identifier
- uon:16295
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781450303996
- Language
- eng
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