Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage Collaboration Between Young Children Export

@article{citeulike:86941, author = {Benford, S. and Bederson, B. and Akesson, K. and Bayon, V. and Druin, D. and Hansson, P. and Hourcade, J. and Ingram, R. and Neale, H. and O'Malley, C. and Simsarian, K. S. and Sundblad, Y. and Taxen, G.}, citeulike-article-id = {86941}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/99-28html/99-28.html}, comment = {We describe the iterative design of two collaborative storytelling technologies for young children, KidPad and the Klump. We focus on the idea of designing interfaces to subtly encourage collaboration so that children are invited to discover the added benefits of working together. This idea has been motivated by our experiences of using early versions of our technologies in schools in Sweden and the UK. We compare the approach of encouraging collaboration with other approaches to synchronizing shared interfaces. We describe how we have revised the technologies to encourage collaboration and to reflect design suggestions made by the children themselves.}, keywords = {children, collaboration, design, storytelling}, posted-at = {2005-02-01 22:47:30}, priority = {0}, title = {Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage Collaboration Between Young Children }, url = {ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/99-28html/99-28.html} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:86941 L3 - citeulike-article-id:86941 TI - Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage Collaboration Between Young Children KW - children KW - collaboration KW - design KW - storytelling N1 - We describe the iterative design of two collaborative storytelling technologies for young children, KidPad and the Klump. We focus on the idea of designing interfaces to subtly encourage collaboration so that children are invited to discover the added benefits of working together. This idea has been motivated by our experiences of using early versions of our technologies in schools in Sweden and the UK. We compare the approach of encouraging collaboration with other approaches to synchronizing shared interfaces. We describe how we have revised the technologies to encourage collaboration and to reflect design suggestions made by the children themselves. AU - Benford, S AU - Bederson, B AU - Akesson, K AU - Bayon, V AU - Druin, D AU - Hansson, P AU - Hourcade, J AU - Ingram, R AU - Neale, H AU - O'Malley, C AU - Simsarian, KS AU - Sundblad, Y AU - Taxen, G UR - ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/99-28html/99-28.html ER -