Collaborative Learning Skills in Multi-touch Tables for UML Software Design
نویسندگان
چکیده
The use of Multi-touch interfaces for collaborative learning has received significant attention. Their ability to synchronously accommodate multiple users is an advantage in co-located collaborative design tasks. This paper explores the Multi-touch interface’s potential in collaborative Unified Modeling Language diagramming by comparing it to a PC-based tool, looking at the Collaborative Learning Skills and amount of physical interactions in both conditions. The results show that even though participants talked more in the PC-based condition, the use of the Multi-touch table increased the amount of physical interactions, and encouraged the “Creative Conflict” skills amongst the team members. Keywords—Collaborative Design; Multi-touch Table; PCbased; Collaborative Learning Skills
منابع مشابه
A Collaborative Multi-Touch UML Design Tool
The design and development of software projects is usually done in teams today. Collaborative systems based on multi-touch walls or large table-top screens could support these highly interactive tasks. We present a novel collaborative design tool which allows several developers to jointly create complex UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams. We have developed new algorithms to recognize the ...
متن کاملCOSMOS: multitouch support for collaboration in user-centered projects
First multi-touch tables like the Microsoft Surface are commercially available. Their use allows to enhance the user experience in a large number of collaborative domains. In this paper, we examine how early phases in software development like requirements engineering can be supported by this new technology. We present a novel approach for supporting collaborative work between systems designers...
متن کاملThe Impact of Interactive Tables and Multiple Surfaces Technologies Towards Communication and Learning
Multi-touch interactive tables are vast becoming „must-have‟ items for enhancing the collaborative learning experience. There is extensive amount of literature promoting and highlighting the impact of collaborative learning around interactive tables towards learning, communication and social interaction. In this paper we present several of our existing work investigating the communication impac...
متن کاملThe Four Ts of the Collaborative Classroom
Drawing on a multi-year study of using multi-touch tables in a classroom setting, this paper lays out a framework to use when designing and studying collaborative classrooms. The framework identified the overlapping aspects of teachers, tasks, technology and teams, as being essential features of the use of computer-supported collaborative learning in classrooms. We argue that the design of coll...
متن کاملTool Support for Map Interface Design: Individual versus Collaborative Approach
Recent advances in computer hardware have improved support for co-located collaborative task completion, such as through large, multi-user, multi-touch tables. Software engineers need to complement these advances with improved software user interfaces that reflect any different behaviours that arise from the different interaction techniques (e.g. multi-user, multitouch tables versus single-user...
متن کامل