Enforcing Cooperative Storytelling: First Studies

  • Authors:
  • Alessandro Cappelletti;Giulia Gelmini;Fabio Pianesi;Franca Rossi;Massimo Zancanaro

  • Affiliations:
  • ITC-irst;ITC-irst;ITC-irst;ITC-irst;ITC-irst

  • Venue:
  • ICALT '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the first prototype of a system called StoryTable, aimed at supporting a group of children in the activity of storytelling. The system is based on a special multi-user touchable device (the MERL DiamondTouch) and it was designed with the purpose of enforcing collaboration between children. The paper discusses how the main design choices were influenced by the paradigm of cooperative learning and presents two observational studies to assess the effects of the different design choices on the storytelling activity.