Béatrice Arend

University of Luxembourg · Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education FLSHASE

Coordination is an important aspect of group work. Previous studies have shown how collocated multi-user interfaces, such as interactive tabletops, support coordination by providing a shared space that enhances workspace awareness. However, only little is known about the coordination processes that occur during problem-solving on such shared device...

The interactive tabletop activity ‘Orbitia’ aims at developing collaborative conduct among participants. We provide a detailed account of how a group of three participants jointly solve a problem in the Orbitia environment. In our conversation analytic case study, we analyze the situated processes at the group level of description to develop a bett...

Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies

To support collaboration, researchers from different fields have proposed the design principles of shareability (engaging users in shared interactions around the same content) and positive interdependence (distributing roles and information to make users dependent on each other). While, on its own, each principle was shown to successfully support c...

This paper is concerned with how the spatial distribution of written informings in a serious game activity at an interactive tabletop (ITT) induces participants to read aloud interactionally relevant information to each other in the process of co-constructing a shared understanding. Engaging in an unfamiliar game activity, the participants are all...

Constructive collaboration can be a difficult matter. For this reason, we are implementing and studying an interactive-tabletop-mediated activity that aims at inducing collaboration among participants. The resulting activity ‘Orbitia’ is designed as a serious game. Participants are asked to act as a space-mining crew, which has to collect minerals...

Within the context of the research project ORBIT (Overcoming Breakdowns in Teams with Interactive Tabletops), we design and study a joint problem-solving activity at an interactive tabletop, that gives participants the opportunity to develop their collaboration methods. To gain design insights for the development of a scenario soliciting participan...

In recent years, tangible user interfaces (TUI) have gained in popularity in educational contexts, among others to implement problem-solving and discovery learning science activities. In the context of an interdisciplinary and cross-institutional collaboration, we conducted a multimodal EMCA-based video user study involving a TUI-mediated bicycle m...

ORBIT implements and studies a joint problem-solving activity at a tabletop tangible user interface (TUI) providing participants with the opportunity to develop their collaboration methods through jointly overcoming breakdowns. The design and the research process relies on user-centered design methods and on an ethnomethodological conversation anal...

Our paper provides an empirically based perspective on the contribution of Conversation Analysis (CA) to our understanding of children’s second language learning practices in a multilingual classroom setting. While exploring the interactional configuration of a French second language learning activity, we focus our analytic lens on how five childre...

This paper is a single case analysis of an occurrence of discovery work accomplished by two university students who are jointly engaged in a tangible-user-interface-mediated physics problem solving activity. The latter is a computer simulation of a biker's applied force and work done to the bike in a changeable landscape. Participants are asked to...

Over the past decades, dialogic classroom talk has increasingly been acknowledged to be of prime importance for teaching and learning. Many researchers refer to the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin when conceptualising ‘dialogic’ or ‘dialogism’, either as an epistemology or an ontology. In our study we rely on an ontological view of ‘dialogue’ and on th...

Im Zuge der Diskussion um die Bedeutung von (früh)kindlichen Bildungs- und Lernprozessen rückt die Frage der Beobachtbarkeit des Lernensin den Blickpunkt der grundschul- und elementarpädagogischen Forschung. Um Lernensichtbar werden zu lassen, braucht es die Entwicklung einer methodischen Strategie und einen theoretischen Rahmen für dessen Beschrei...

This paper discusses theoretical and methodological issues arising from a video-based research design and the emergent tool ‘Joint Screen’ when grasping joint activity. We share our reflections regarding the combined reading of four synchronised camera perspectives combined in one screen. By these means we reconstruct and analyse multimodal moment-...