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Investigating class conversations with classtalk: a study with tangible object prototypes in a primary school

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Interactive tangible objects can help orchestrate conversations in school classes. If such tangibles are created with a meta-design approach, for the specific context of their users, they evolve according to their usage. Specifically, tangible object prototypes are created; prototypes are adopted by their users in ecological studies; their usage is reflected over by users and designers to investigate design possibilities, which are rapidly prototyped and again adopted by users. This paper reports on the meta-design and latest evolution of ClassTalk, a tangible for conversations in primary school classes. It shows how new design ideas emerged by making users adopt ClassTalk prototypes, and by moving designers into users' context.

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    AVI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
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    1. children
    2. class
    3. conversation
    4. evolutionary prototyping
    5. meta-design
    6. tangible
    7. teachers

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    • (2022)Animettes: A design-oriented investigation into the properties of tangible toolkits that support children’s collaboration-in-making activitiesInternational Journal of Child-Computer Interaction10.1016/j.ijcci.2022.10051733(100517)Online publication date: Sep-2022
    • (2019)Turn taking with turn-talk in groupMultimedia Tools and Applications10.1007/s11042-018-7090-278:10(13461-13487)Online publication date: 20-Jul-2019

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