Listen reader: an electronically augmented paper-based book
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Where the action is: the foundations of embodied interaction
Where the action is: the foundations of embodied interaction
The mixed reality book: a new multimedia reading experience
CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
LIFELONG INTERACTIONS: Embodied child computer interaction: why embodiment matters
interactions - The Counterfeit You
Architectural robotics, inevitably
interactions
A networked suite of mixed-technology robotic artifacts for advancing literacy in children
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
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The outcome of a multidisciplinary and iterative process, the LIT KIT is a portable, cyber-physical artifact supporting children's picture-book reading. The LIT KIT follows from the hypothesis that children's literacy can be advanced in a tangible, co-creative environment that is both physical and digital. The LIT KIT employs color, sound and movement to scaffold meaning-making through the creation of an environment that is evocative of the picture-book being read. Designed with a Sifteo™ cube [16] interface, the LIT KIT creates room-scaled audio-visual and spatial effects to both contextualize language and provide feedback during dialogical interactions between a child and an adult reader. Children can customize the LIT KIT settings to actively interpret the ideas, concepts and environments inherent in the picture-book's words and images. The LIT KIT is an outreach component, for home or classroom use, of our developing room-scaled LIT ROOM for a major public library. Presented here are motivations for the LIT KIT, and an elaboration of its design and development. Usability evaluations have begun and continue, as we further the prototype with expected completion in Summer 2013.