Mobile collaboration: Collaboratively reading and creating children's stories on mobile devices

Jerry Alan Fails, Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha

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Abstract

This paper discusses design iterations of Mobile Stories - a mobile technology that empowers children to collaboratively read and create stories. We present the design and discuss the impact of different collocated collaborative configurations for mobile devices including: content splitting and space sharing. We share design experiences that illustrate how Mobile Stories supports collaboration and mobility, and identify how the collocated collaborative configurations are best suited for reading and sharing tasks. We also identify how creative tasks foster more mobility and dynamic interactions between collaborators.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of IDC2010
Subtitle of host publicationThe 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Pages20-29
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC2010 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 9 Jun 201012 Jun 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of IDC2010: The 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC2010
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period9/06/1012/06/10

Keywords

  • Children
  • Collaboration
  • Collaborative configurations
  • Constructionism
  • Mobile devices
  • Narrative systems
  • Stories
  • User interfaces

EGS Disciplines

  • Computer Sciences

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