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Fighting for control: Children's embodied interactions when using physical and digital representations

  • Paul Marshall
  • , Rowanne Fleck
  • , Amanda Harris
  • , Jochen Rick
  • , Eva Hornecker
  • , Yvonne Rogers
  • , Nicola Yuill
  • , Nick Sheep Dalton

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

    75 Citations (Scopus)

    Abstract

    Tabletop and tangible interfaces are often described in terms of their support for shared access to digital resources. However, it is not always the case that collaborators want to share and help one another. In this paper we detail a video- analysis of a series of prototyping sessions with children who used both cardboard objects and an interactive tabletop surface. We show how the material qualities of the digital interface and physical objects affect the kinds of bodily strategies adopted by children to stop others from accessing them. We discuss how children fight for and maintain control of physical versus digital objects in terms of embodied interaction and what this means when designing collaborative applications for shareable interfaces.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationCHI 2009
    Subtitle of host publicationDigital Life New World - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    Pages2149-2152
    Number of pages4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2009
    Event27th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009 - Boston, United States
    Duration: 4 Apr 20099 Apr 2009
    Conference number: 27

    Conference

    Conference27th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009
    Abbreviated titleCHI 2009
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityBoston
    Period4/04/099/04/09

    Research Groups and Themes

    • Bristol Interaction Group

    Keywords

    • Children
    • Collaboration
    • Embodied interaction

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