Supporting embodied exploration of physical concepts in mixed digital and physical interactive settings

Zeynep Ahmet; Martin Jonsson; Saiful Islam Sumon; Lars Erik Holmquist

doi:10.1145/1935701.1935723

Supporting embodied exploration of physical concepts in mixed digital and physical interactive settings

Zeynep Ahmet^*, Martin Jonsson, Saiful Islam Sumon, Lars Erik Holmquist

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Abstract

In this paper findings are presented from a study on how sensor equipped computer game technologies can be used to create tools for educational settings to learn about for example concepts in physics. In a workshop focusing on the concept of gravity, a group of children interacted with an environment consisting of both physical and digital interactive components. We discuss how the mixed digital and physical setting affects the children's coordination and collaboration and their strategies to solve the given assignment. Findings suggest that the embodied nature of the technology create new opportunities for collaboration and that the alignment of the physical and digital parts of the interactive setting is important in order to create a seamless experience that takes advantage of the properties of the respective media.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TEI'11
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction
Publisher	ACM
Pages	109-116
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781450306287
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1935701.1935723
Publication status	Published - 22 Jan 2011
Event	5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11 - Madeira, Portugal Duration: 23 Jan 2011 → 26 Jan 2011

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Conference	5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Madeira
Period	23/01/11 → 26/01/11

Keywords

Embodied learning
Sensor based interaction
Tangible interaction

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Ahmet, Z, Jonsson, M, Sumon, SI & Holmquist, LE 2011, Supporting embodied exploration of physical concepts in mixed digital and physical interactive settings. in TEI'11: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction. ACM, pp. 109-116, 5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11, Madeira, Portugal, 23/01/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/1935701.1935723

Supporting embodied exploration of physical concepts in mixed digital and physical interactive settings. / Ahmet, Zeynep; Jonsson, Martin; Sumon, Saiful Islam et al.
TEI'11: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction. ACM, 2011. p. 109-116.

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