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The Design of TurnTalk for the Scaffolding of Balanced Conversations in Groups of Children

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Emerging Technologies for Education (SETE 2016)

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The proper management of conversation among children is pivotal for any group activity with them. Socio-emotional learning curricula developed experimented activities for teaching children conversation skills, which can be enhanced by tangible interactive playful solutions for conveying conversation rules. This paper moves along such lines and presents the design and current evaluation of a tangible interactive playful object for children: TurnTalk. Enhanced with “calm technology”, TurnTalk promotes the scaffolding of a balanced conversation in group, in terms of turns taken in talking. The paper overviews its design rationale, choices and current evaluation results.

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    Alessandra Melonio & Mehdi Rizvi

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  2. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Rome, Italy

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  3. National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Yueh-Min Huang

  4. The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Haoran Xie

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Melonio, A., Rizvi, M. (2017). The Design of TurnTalk for the Scaffolding of Balanced Conversations in Groups of Children. In: Wu, TT., Gennari, R., Huang, YM., Xie, H., Cao, Y. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52836-6_28

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