Mobile stories: The evolution of a mobile, collaborative story reading and creation tool for children

Jerry Alan Fails; Allison Druin; Mona Leigh Guha

doi:10.1504/ijart.2012.046276

Mobile stories: The evolution of a mobile, collaborative story reading and creation tool for children

Jerry Alan Fails, Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha

Computer Science Department

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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 support 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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	244-270
Number of pages	27
Journal	International Journal of Arts and Technology
Volume	5
Issue number	2-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/ijart.2012.046276
State	Published - Apr 2012

Keywords

Children
Collaboration
Constructionism
Mobile devices
Narrative systems/tools
Stories
User interfaces
Writing/creating stories
mobility
narrative systems

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Computer Sciences

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