Things that blink: Computationally augmented name tags

Borovoy, Richard; McDonald, M.; Martin, Fred; Resnick, Mitchel

doi:10.1147/sj.353.0488

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“…Participatory Simulations are supported by a variation of the Thinking Tag technology developed at the Media Lab (Borovoy, et al, 1996). The Tags are used to transform each participant into an "agent" in a life-sized simulation of a dynamic system.…”

Section: Technological Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Tags are used to transform each participant into an "agent" in a life-sized simulation of a dynamic system. In order to create an environment that fostered this kind of "first-person" simulation, which could be took care to ensure that the enhanced information display would not interfere with participants' social interactions Borovoy et al, 1996;Ishii, Kobayashi, & Arita, 1994).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Participatory Simulations: Building Collaborative Understanding Through Immersive Dynamic Modeling

Colella

2000

Journal of the Learning Sciences

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The Participatory Simulations Project explores how a new kind of collaborative learning environment, which is supported by small, wearable computers, can facilitate collaborative theory-building and lead to a richer understanding of scientific experimentation. In a Participatory Simulation, participants become "agents" in a full-scale simulation. Unlike previous work, Participatory Simulations combines the notion of a microworld with the affordances of real world experience. By involving a large number of people (typically between 15 and 30) in a "life-sized" experience, the project brings a microworld off of the computer screen and into the physical world. In particular, this study explored the use of a series of Participatory Simulations in a high school Biology class. The students became "agents" in a simulation of a disease infecting their community. The results of this project show that Participatory Simulations fully engage participants in the simulation, facilitate collaborative problem solving, provide a substrate for collaboratively designing and running experiments, and support the definition of new vocabulary to discuss the underlying rules of the simulation.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Technological Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory Simulations: Building Collaborative Understanding Through Immersive Dynamic Modeling

Colella

2000

Journal of the Learning Sciences

238

166

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“…A number of platforms also employed visual feedback using LEDs and LCD displays to facilitate interaction [6,5,1]. The iBadge [19] was designed to be worn by children to capture interactions with teachers and common classroom objects.…”

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Understanding Organizational Behavior with Wearable Sensing Technology

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“…Wearable displays might not only communicate with PDAs, but other e-textile devices as well. Imagine a classroom full of children wearing communicating displays, similar to the environment envisioned by Borovoy et al [2]. A child might be able to program his shirt with a Game of Life configuration and then stand next to a friend to watch the configuration march onto the friend's shirt.…”

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Electronic/computational textiles and children's crafts

Buechley¹,

Elumeze²,

Eisenberg³

2006

Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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An astonishing array of new technologies is currently effecting a revolution in the professional design of textile artifacts. This integration of electronics and computation into textiles likewise suggests new directions in the practice of children's crafts. In this paper, we present a classification scheme that we believe will prove useful in structuring exploration and discussion of new directions in children's textile-based crafts. Within the context of this classification scheme, we describe several projects in our lab (along with early pilot-testing efforts) that offer examples of how children can work with computationally enriched textiles. We conclude by describing several extremely exciting-but nonetheless plausible-scenarios for continued work in this area.

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Things that blink: Computationally augmented name tags

Cited by 63 publications

References 6 publications

Participatory Simulations: Building Collaborative Understanding Through Immersive Dynamic Modeling

Participatory Simulations: Building Collaborative Understanding Through Immersive Dynamic Modeling

Understanding Organizational Behavior with Wearable Sensing Technology

Electronic/computational textiles and children's crafts

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