Much bodily-material coordination in touchscreen collaboration occurs in the space off the screen¶

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Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Fine-grained analysis of two children's collaboration on touchscreens showed only a small part of coordination, communication and collaboration via movements, touches and gestures occurred on the touchscreen; much happened in the open space between screen and children. → Nancy Law 2017

Evidence¶

Nancy Law 2017¶

Nancy Law, Sten Ludvigsen, Ulrike Cress, Carolyn P. Rose. (2017). Fostering targeted group practices as a Core focus for CSCL task and technology design. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-017-9253-y

q2 · i? · qualitative · r1

The editorial summarizes Davidsen and Ryberg's fine-grained analysis of two nine-year-old children using bodily-material resources (with language) while working on touchscreens to make sense of the concept of scale, including 66 s of analyzed video showing productive collaboration.

"The fine-grained analysis adopted in this study further shows that only a small part of the coordination, communication and collaboration involving movements, touches and gestures took place on the touchscreen, while much of that instead happens in the open space between the screen and the children."

Discussion¶

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