Interactive Artifacts and Furniture Supporting Collaborative Work and Learning

181 Pages·2009·10.27 MB·English

by  J. Huang

Interactive Artifacts and Furniture Supporting
Collaborative Work and Learning
COMPUTER-SUPPORTED - LEARNING
VOLUME 10
Series Editor:
Chris Hoadley, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA
Naomi Miyake, Chukyo University, Aichi, Japan
Editorial Board:
Michael Baker, CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon, France
Carl Bereiter, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada
Yrjö Engeström, University of Helsinki, Finland
Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, U.S.A.
H. Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Timothy Koschmann, Southern Illinois University, U.S.A.
Claire O’Malley, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Roy Pea, SRI International, U.S.A.
Clotilde Pontecorovo, University ‘La Sapienza’, Italy
Jeremy Roschelle, SRI International, U.S.A.
Daniel Suthers, University of Hawaii, U.S.A.
The Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Book Series is for people working in the
CSCL fi eld. The scope of the series extends to ‘collaborative learning’ in its broadest sense;
the term is used for situations ranging from two individuals performing a task together,
during a short period of time, to groups of 200 students following the same course and
interacting via electronic mail. This variety also concerns the computational tools used in
learning: elaborated graphical whiteboards support peer interaction, while more rudimentary
text-based discussion forums are used for large group interaction. The series will integrate
issues related to CSCL such as collaborative problem solving, collaborative learning without
computers, negotiation patterns outside collaborative tasks, and many other relevant topics.
It will also cover computational issues such as models, algorithms or architectures which
support innovative functions relevant to CSCL systems.
The edited volumes and monographs to be published in this series offer authors who have
carried out interesting research work the opportunity to integrate various pieces of their
recent work into a larger framework.
Pierre Dillenbourg (cid:129) Jeffrey Huang
Mauro Cherubini
Editors
Interactive Artifacts
and Furniture Supporting
Collaborative Work
and Learning
Editors
Pierre Dillenbourg Jeffrey Huang
CRAFT-Ecole CRAFT-Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Switzerland Switzerland
[email protected] [email protected]
Mauro Cherubini
Multimedia scientific group
Telefónica Research
Spain
[email protected]
ISBN:978-0-387-77233-2 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-77234-9
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77234-9
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008931139
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Acknowledgements
First of all, we thank the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) for
providing the necessary founds for organizing the CAIF workshop where the idea
of this book was first sketched.
We thank all participants of the Collaborative Artefacts and Interactive Furniture
workshop (CAIF) held on the 20th, 21st, and 22nd of June 2005 in Château D’Oex,
Switzerland: Edith K. Ackermann, Anders-Petter Andersson, David Aymonin,
Maribeth Back, Waltraud Beckmann, Jan Borchers, Giovanni Cannata, Birgitta
Cappelen, Dana Cho, Régine Debatty, Fabien Girardin, Christophe Guignard, Jean-
Baptiste Haué, Jaana Hyvarinen, Tom Igoe, Patrick Jermann, Frédéric Kaplan,
Osamu Kato, Karen Johanne Kortbek, Jean-Baptiste Labrune, Saadi Lahlou, Sara
Ljungblad, Christophe Marchand, Stefano Mastrogiacomo, Takashi Matsumoto,
Mark Meagher, Scott Minneman, Gaelle Molinari, Lira Nikolovska, Nicolas Nova,
Chris O’Shea, Amanda Parkes, Thorsten Prante, Roger Ibars, Anural Sehgal,
Andrew Sempere, Chia Shen, Ranjan Shetty, Frank Sonder, Peggy Thoeny, Cati
Vaucelle, Nicolas Villar, Kevin Walker, Rachna Argawal, Satyendra Nainwal.
Additionally, we thank all anonymous reviewers for providing their feedback to
an initial draft of this book.
Finally, we thank Kamni Gill for proofreading the chapters of this book written by
authors whose main language is not English.
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Contents
1 Introduction: Why Would Furniture Be Relevant
for Collaborative Learning? ................................................................... 1
J. Huang, M. Cherubini, N. Nova, and P. Dillenbourg
2 Design of Systems for Supporting Collaborative Learning
Augmented with Physical Artefacts ....................................................... 15
Masanori Sugimoto
3 Do Fewer Laptops Make a Better Team? .............................................. 35
Jean-Baptiste Haué and Pierre Dillenbourg
4 The Disappearing Computer: Consequences
for Educational Technology? .................................................................. 59
H. Ulrich Hoppe
5 Supporting Collaboration with Augmented
Environments ............................................................................................ 77
Saadi Lahlou
6 Rethinking the Podium ............................................................................ 97
Maribeth Back, Surapong Lertsithichai, Patrick Chiu,
John Boreczky, Jonathan Foote, Don Kimber, Qiong Liu,
and Takashi Matsumoto
7 Collaborative Tabletop Research and Evaluation ................................ 111
Chia Shen, Kathy Ryall, Clifton Forlines, Alan Esenther,
Frédéric D. Vernier, Katherine Everitt, Mike Wu, Daniel
Wigdor, Meredith Ringel Morris, Mark Hancock, and Edward Tse
8 Interpersonal Computers for Higher Education .................................. 129
Frédéric Kaplan, Son Do Lenh, Khaled Bachour, Gloria Yi-ing Kao,
Clément Gault, and Pierre Dillenbourg
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9 Exploratory Design, Augmented Furniture .......................................... 147
Lira Nikolovska and Edith Ackermann
Author Index .................................................................................................. 167
Subject Index .................................................................................................. 171
Contributors
Edith K. Ackermann is an Honorary Professor of Developmental Psychology,

University of Aix-Marseille, currently Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology School of Architecture in Cambridge, MA. She teaches
graduate students, conducts research, and consults for companies, institutions,
and organizations interested in the intersections between learning, teaching, design,
and digital technologies. http://www.media.mit.edu/~edith
Khaled Bachour has a master’s degree in Computer Science from the American

University of Beirut. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in the Center for Research and Support for
Training and Its Technologies (CRAFT). He is developing, under the supervision
of Pierre Dillenbourg and Frederic Kaplan, an interactive table for supporting cas-
ual collaborative learning. He is studying different ways of displaying real-time
information about the collaborative process to the participants, and is investigating
the effect of such shared visualizations on group behaviour.
Maribeth Back is a senior research scientist at the FX Palo Alto Laboratory; prior

to that she was a senior research scientist at Xerox PARC. Her current research
focuses on the intersection of real and virtual environments, with a bit of ubiquitous
computing mixed in. She holds a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of
Design in computational design, and has a background in professional audio as a
recording engineer and theatrical sound designer. Research areas she has worked in
include smart environments (real and virtual), multi-modal interface design, ubiq-
uitous computing, new forms of reading and writing, and interactive audio systems
design and engineering.
John Boreczky is a member of the Smart Environments project at FXPAL. He has

over 16 years of experience in video and related multimedia technology.
He received a B.S. and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of
Michigan, and is an ABD (all but dissertation) at the University of California at
Berkeley. He has authored journal and conference papers in the areas of automotive
human factors, computer interface design, and multimedia systems.
Mauro Cherubini is a researcher at Telefonica Research and Development (TID),

multimedia group, in Barcelona, Spain. He received a B.A. in Education from
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the University of RomaTre, in Rome, Italy, and an M.A. in Education from
St. Patrick’s College, in Dublin, Ireland. He holds a doctorate from the Computer
Science School of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He is inter-
ested in tangible interfaces to support learning. http://www.i-cherubini.it/mauro/
Patrick Chiu is a senior research scientist at the FX Palo Alto Laboratory. His

general research interests lie in multimedia, smart spaces, human–computer
interaction, machine learning, visualization, and mathematics.
Pierre Dillenbourg a former teacher in elementary school, graduated in edu-

cational science (University of Mons, Belgium). He started his research on learn-
ing technologies in 1984. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Lancaster (UK), in the domain of artificial intelligence applications
for educational software. He has been assistant professor at TECFA, University of
Geneva. He joined EPFL in November 2002. His current interests concern compu-
ter-supported collaborative learning (CSCL): the design and experimentation of
interactive furniture; the effects of awareness tools on group performance and
mutual modelling; the authoring of CSCL scripts; the use of eye tracking method
for predicting interaction patterns. P. Dillenbourg has been consultant for compa-
nies in Switzerland and Europe. He is the editor of the Kluwer Series “Computer-
Supported Collaborative Learning” and former president of the International
Society for Learning Sciences. http://people.epfl.ch/pierre.dillenbourg
Son Do-Lenh is currently a Ph.D. student at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

in Lausanne (EPFL). He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Computer Science
at University of Natural Sciences, Vietnam National University in HoChiMinh City
(HCM-UNS) in 2003 and 2007, respectively. During this period, he was also
involved in teaching activities at the same school as a teaching assistant and then
lecturer. He spent 1 year as a research intern at CRAFT, a HCI and CSCL lab in
EPFL, implementing a real-time multi-fingertip detection algorithm for the
Docklamp, a portable interactive projector-camera system. His research interests
include human–computer interaction and computer-supported collaborative learning.
His Ph.D. is about inventing and evaluating new generation of interactive furniture
that can be exploited for collaborative learning. http://people.epfl.ch/son.dolenh
Alan Esenther is a user interface software developer in the Technology Lab at

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. His research interests include human–
computer interaction, finding the right digital tool for the job, and, lately, making
multi-user, multi-touch, and large touch surface interactions and development much
easier. Alan has an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University. http://
www.merl.com/people/esenther/
Katherine Everitt is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of

Washington. Her research interests include tabletop interfaces, computer supported
cooperative work, and multimodal interfaces. She has an M.S. in Computer Science
from the University of California, Berkeley. http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/
everitt