Journal
PERSONAL AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
Volume 18, Issue 6, Pages 1471-1483Publisher
SPRINGER LONDON LTD
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-013-0749-9
Keywords
Touch interaction; Gesture interaction; Child-computer interaction; Mobile devices; Gesture recognition; $N; $P; Educational technology
Funding
- Department of Education HBGI Grant Award [P031B090207-11]
- National Science Foundation Grant Awards [IIS-1218395/IIS1218664]
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1433228] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In next-generation classrooms and educational environments, interactive technologies such as surface computing, natural gesture interfaces, and mobile devices will enable new means of motivating and engaging students in active learning. Our foundational studies provide a corpus of over 10,000 touch interactions and nearly 7,000 gestures collected from nearly 70 adults and children aged 7 years and above, which can help us understand the characteristics of children's interactions in these modalities and how they differ from adults. Based on these data, we identify key design and implementation challenges of supporting children's touch and gesture interactions, and we suggest ways to address them. For example, we find children have more trouble successfully acquiring onscreen targets and having their gestures recognized than do adults, especially the youngest age group (7-10 years old). The contributions of this work provide a foundation that will enable touch-based interactive educational apps that increase student success.
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