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Xambó, Anna; Hornecker, Eva; Marshall, Paul; Jordà, Sergi; Dobbyn, Chris and Laney, Robin
(2013).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2530541
URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2530541
Abstract
There has been little research on how interactions with tabletop and Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) by groups of users change over time. In this article, we investigate the challenges and opportunities of a tabletop tangible interface based on constructive building blocks. We describe a long-term lab study of groups of expert musicians improvising with the Reactable, a commercial tabletop TUI for music performance. We examine interaction, focusing on interface, tangible, musical, and social phenomena. Our findings reveal a practice-based learning between peers in situated contexts, and new forms of participation, all of which is facilitated by the Reactable's tangible interface, if compared to traditional musical ensembles. We summarise our findings as a set of design considerations and conclude that construction processes on interactive tabletops support learning by doing and peer learning, which can inform constructivist approaches to learning with technology.
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- Item ORO ID
- 39227
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1557-7325
- Keywords
- tabletop interfaces; tangible user interfaces; collaborative learning; musical improvisation
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications - Research Group
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Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
Music Computing Lab - Copyright Holders
- © 2013 ACM
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- Anna Xambó