Group interaction on interactive multi-touch tables by children in India

2012. Izdihar Jamil, Mark Perry, Kenton O'Hara, Abhijit Karnik, Mark Marshall, Swathi Jha, Sanjay Gupta & Sriram Subramanian
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children.

Abstract

Interactive tables provide multi-touch capabilities that can enable children to collaborate face-to-face simultaneously. In this paper we extend existing understanding of children's use of interactive tabletops by examining their use by school children in a school in Delhi, India. In the study, we explore how the school children exhibit particular types of collaboration strategies and touch input techniques when dealing with digital objects. In particular, we highlight a number of behaviours of interest, such as how the children would move the same digital object on the table together. We also discuss how the children work in close proximity to each other and dynamically organize their spatial positions in order to work together, as well as establish territory and control. We go on to examine some of the finger-based interaction and manipulation strategies that arise in these contexts. Finally, the paper considers the implications of such behaviours for the deployment of tabletop applications in these particular educational contexts.

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Citation

Jamil, I., Perry, M., O'Hara, K., Karnik, A., Marshall, M. T., Jha, S., … Subramanian, S. (2012). Group interaction on interactive multi-touch tables by children in india. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 224–227). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/2307096.2307131, doi:10.1145/2307096.2307131

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/2307096.2307131,
author = {Jamil, Izdihar and Perry, Mark and O'Hara, Kenton and Karnik, Abhijit and Marshall, Mark T. and Jha, Swathi and Gupta, Sanjay and Subramanian, Sriram},
title = {Group interaction on interactive multi-touch tables by children in India},
year = {2012},
isbn = {9781450310079},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2307096.2307131},
doi = {10.1145/2307096.2307131},
abstract = {Interactive tables provide multi-touch capabilities that can enable children to collaborate face-to-face simultaneously. In this paper we extend existing understanding of children's use of interactive tabletops by examining their use by school children in a school in Delhi, India. In the study, we explore how the school children exhibit particular types of collaboration strategies and touch input techniques when dealing with digital objects. In particular, we highlight a number of behaviours of interest, such as how the children would move the same digital object on the table together. We also discuss how the children work in close proximity to each other and dynamically organize their spatial positions in order to work together, as well as establish territory and control. We go on to examine some of the finger-based interaction and manipulation strategies that arise in these contexts. Finally, the paper considers the implications of such behaviours for the deployment of tabletop applications in these particular educational contexts.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children},
pages = {224–227},
numpages = {4},
keywords = {children, collaboration and India, multi-finger interaction, multi-touch interactive tables},
location = {Bremen, Germany},
series = {IDC '12}
}