Our experience with these systems, both inside and outside of the laboratory, results in an insightful understanding of the impacts of tangible tabletops on learning and the conditions for their effective use as well as deployment. It presents the design, implementation, and evaluations of three tangible tabletop systems – the DockLamp, the TinkerLamp, and the TinkerLamp 2.0 – in different learning contexts. This thesis aims to explore how educational tangible tabletop systems affect reflection, how reflection and orchestration are related, and how we can support reflection and orchestration to improve learning. The way teachers manage technology-enhanced classrooms and the involved activities and constraints in real-time, also known as classroom orchestration, is a crucial aspect for the materialization of reflection and learning. Due to the technological evolution in schools, multiple activities, resources, and constraints in the classroom ecosystem are now involved in the learning process. Increasingly, this design assumption is no longer sufficient, especially in realistic learning settings. Moreover, most existing tangible tabletops are designed as stand-alone systems or devices. However, it remains unclear as to whether students really benefit from using them for tasks that require a high level of reflection. Tangible tabletop systems have been extensively proven to be able to enhance participation and engagement as well as enable many exciting activities, particularly in the education domain.
Experiments have shown that the proposed approach is practicable in terms of both performance and positive reception by users, although some inherent problems of vision-based systems must be taken into account. The implemented prototype, based on computer vision, relies on a simple and cheap webcam, and controls consist of sliders, buttons, knobs and trackpads. Through fingers, users can operate interface controls either drawn by themselves or provided in ready-to-use pre-printed sheets.
This paper presents a gesture input approach based on a paper interface, appraising its efficiency and investigating the user acceptance level.
While physical interfaces can be the right choice for purpose-specific appliances, they become less practicable in the case of interfaces for software tools, since each program would need its own physical interface. Founded by Tim White, Jimmy Jenkins, Josh Bullock, Matthew White & Charlie Adams of Playwatch, Inc.Graphical user interfaces may sometimes not be fully comfortable, because they require oculomotor coordination and relatively precise mouse movement. PLAYWATCH KIDS is a streaming content service that provides educational and fun children's content that centers on ethnic and culturally diverse characters. Playwatch Kids provides an avenue of diverse hero profiles so that every child can see themselves as the hero!" "We believe every child can be educated and entertained in manner that shows they are the hero of their story. "Our goal is to tell engaging and exciting stories that entertains and educate youth all over the world while providing a home for often overlooked children's content creators. Tim White, co- CEO & President of Business Operations explains how important representation is for all children including children of color.
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