FireFlies: Supporting primary school teachers through open-ended interaction design

Bakker, S; Van Den Hoven, E; Eggen, B

FireFlies: Supporting primary school teachers through open-ended interaction design

Bakker, S Van Den Hoven, E

Eggen, B

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Citation:: Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2012, 2012, pp. 26 - 29
Issue Date:: 2012-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Bakker, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Van Den Hoven, E https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0888-1426	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Eggen, B	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2012, 2012, pp. 26 - 29	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781450314381	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/22583
dc.description.abstract	Primary school teachers usually perform several tasks simultaneously. Many secondary tasks, such as giving turns or encouraging children to work silently, could be supported by interactive systems, which may lighten the teacher's busy everyday routine. Such systems however, should afford being interacted with while performing another primary task. We call this type of design peripheral interaction design. In this paper we present FireFlies, an open-ended peripheral interaction design developed for primary schools. Preliminary results of a six week deployment of FireFlies in four classrooms, reveal that teachers used FireFlies to perform secondary tasks and saw it as a valuable addition to the classroom. Though different interactions with FireFlies required different levels of effort, teachers could successfully interact with FireFlies during or in between other tasks. © 2012 ACM.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2012	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1145/2414536.2414540	en_US
dc.title	FireFlies: Supporting primary school teachers through open-ended interaction design	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.for	1203 Design Practice and Management	en_US
dc.location.activity	Melbourne	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice
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Abstract:

Primary school teachers usually perform several tasks simultaneously. Many secondary tasks, such as giving turns or encouraging children to work silently, could be supported by interactive systems, which may lighten the teacher's busy everyday routine. Such systems however, should afford being interacted with while performing another primary task. We call this type of design peripheral interaction design. In this paper we present FireFlies, an open-ended peripheral interaction design developed for primary schools. Preliminary results of a six week deployment of FireFlies in four classrooms, reveal that teachers used FireFlies to perform secondary tasks and saw it as a valuable addition to the classroom. Though different interactions with FireFlies required different levels of effort, teachers could successfully interact with FireFlies during or in between other tasks. © 2012 ACM.

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