A collaborative environment for engaging novices in scientific inquiry

ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 109-118

  Valdes, Consuelo ^a   Ferreirae, Michelle ^a   Feng, Taili ^a   Wang, Heidi ^a   Tempel, Kelsey ^a   Liu, Sirui ^a   Shaer, Orit ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

collaborative learning.; multi touch interaction; tabletop

Indexed keywords

CAPTURING DATA; COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMPLEX DOMAINS; CURATION; DATA CURATION; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; IN-SITU STUDY; INTERACTIVE SURFACES; ITERATIVE DESIGN; MOBILE USER INTERFACE; MULTI-TOUCH; MULTI-TOUCH INTERACTIONS; NOVICE USER; SCIENTIFIC DATA; SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY; TABLETOP; TABLETOP INTERFACES; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; WEB APPLICATION;

INTERACTIVE DEVICES; STUDENTS; USER INTERFACES;

DESIGN;

EID: 84871332996     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2396636.2396654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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