Multi-user multi-touch setups for collaborative learning in an educational setting

  • Authors:
  • Jan Schneider;Jan Derboven;Kris Luyten;Chris Vleugels;Stijn Bannier;Dries De Roeck;Mathijs Verstraete

  • Affiliations:
  • Hasselt University, tUL, IBBT, Expertise Center of Digital Media, Diepenbeek, Belgium;IBBT, KULeuven, Centre for User Experience Research, Leuven, Belgium;Hasselt University, tUL, IBBT, Expertise Center of Digital Media, Diepenbeek, Belgium;IBBT, VUB, Studies on Media Information & Telecommunication, Brussels, Belgium;IBBT, VUB, Studies on Media Information & Telecommunication, Brussels, Belgium;IBBT, KULeuven, Centre for User Experience Research, Leuven, Belgium;IBBT, KULeuven, Centre for User Experience Research, Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • CDVE'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cooperative design, visualization, and engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In educational settings, current digital technologies often work counter-productively because people using them with separation and isolation. This paper describes a set of multi-touch multimedia interaction applications that were especially designed to enhance collaboration between users. We present the underlying framework for creating such applications. Our applications were created for supporting typical collaborative tasks performed by secondary students. We present our findings on the usage of these applications by the users in the settings of a secondary school classroom.