I spent the last several days at CHI 2012 and was so immersed in the experience, I held off blogging until I arrived home.
I was pleasantly overwhelmed by the experience at CHI 2012, There was so much to see, hear, and touch, there were so many bright, creative people all around - I was on mind/sensory overload. Omar L. Gallaga, the author of Digital Savant (Austin 360), attended the conference, and the quote below from his recent post nicely sums it up:"When your mind gets blown multiple times in a very short period of time, it begins to feel as is your brain is quickly rewiring itself to accept that the reality is that anything is possible and that the continual, pleasurable surprise of discovery is the new norm."
For this post, I'm sharing a few things that were presented at CHI 2012 that focus on literacy, storytelling, and narrative. I'll share more in future posts.
Creating and Using Interactive Narratives: Reading and Writing Branching Comics
The short video below provides a good overview of the project, which was presented at CHI 2012 during the Out of the Box" session, chaired by Shahram Izadi, of Microsoft Research USA
"We employ comics and combine paper with a multi-touch interface to explore an approach to reading and writing interactive narratives."
Dan Andrews and Chris Baber from the University of Birmingham (UK)
Sergei Efremov and Mikhail Komorov from the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Russia).
If you are interested in learning more about this process, take a look at the references that were reviewed in the paper about this creative, thoughtful work.
I was pleasantly overwhelmed by the experience at CHI 2012, There was so much to see, hear, and touch, there were so many bright, creative people all around - I was on mind/sensory overload. Omar L. Gallaga, the author of Digital Savant (Austin 360), attended the conference, and the quote below from his recent post nicely sums it up:"When your mind gets blown multiple times in a very short period of time, it begins to feel as is your brain is quickly rewiring itself to accept that the reality is that anything is possible and that the continual, pleasurable surprise of discovery is the new norm."
For this post, I'm sharing a few things that were presented at CHI 2012 that focus on literacy, storytelling, and narrative. I'll share more in future posts.
Creating and Using Interactive Narratives: Reading and Writing Branching Comics
The short video below provides a good overview of the project, which was presented at CHI 2012 during the Out of the Box" session, chaired by Shahram Izadi, of Microsoft Research USA
"We employ comics and combine paper with a multi-touch interface to explore an approach to reading and writing interactive narratives."
Dan Andrews and Chris Baber from the University of Birmingham (UK)
Sergei Efremov and Mikhail Komorov from the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Russia).
If you are interested in learning more about this process, take a look at the references that were reviewed in the paper about this creative, thoughtful work.
Tap & Play: An End User Toolkit for Authoring Interactive Pen and Paper Language Activities
The following video was created several months before CHI 2012:
Tap & Play: An End User Toolkit for Authoring Interactive Pen and Paper Language Activities
Ann Marie Piper, Nadir Weibel, James Hollan,
The following video is related to the Textual Tinkerability paper, presented during the Literacy on the Margin session, chaired by Juan Pablo Hourcade, at CHI 2012:
Textual Tinkerability: Encouraging Storytelling Behaviors to Foster Emergent Literacy Angela Chang, Cynthia Breazeal, Fardad Faridi, Tom Roberts, Glorianna Davenport, Henry Lieberman, Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Related: TinkRBook: Shared Reading Interfaces for Storytelling (IDC 2011)
TinkRBook
RELATED
CHI 2012: brain expanding bits of brilliance
Omar L. Gallaga, Digital Savant, 5/11/12
FYI: I was one of the organizers for the EIST (Educational Interfaces, Software & Technology) workshop, held on May 5th and 6th. The participants came from all around the world to spend two days of presenting, sharing, and brainstorming. Everyone worked hard to make the workshop a success. (I'll share more about EIST soon, but if you are curious, the above link will provide you with more information about the program and papers that were presented.)
The following video was created several months before CHI 2012:
Tap & Play: An End User Toolkit for Authoring Interactive Pen and Paper Language Activities
Ann Marie Piper, Nadir Weibel, James Hollan,
The following video is related to the Textual Tinkerability paper, presented during the Literacy on the Margin session, chaired by Juan Pablo Hourcade, at CHI 2012:
Textual Tinkerability: Encouraging Storytelling Behaviors to Foster Emergent Literacy Angela Chang, Cynthia Breazeal, Fardad Faridi, Tom Roberts, Glorianna Davenport, Henry Lieberman, Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Related: TinkRBook: Shared Reading Interfaces for Storytelling (IDC 2011)
TinkRBook
RELATED
CHI 2012: brain expanding bits of brilliance
Omar L. Gallaga, Digital Savant, 5/11/12
FYI: I was one of the organizers for the EIST (Educational Interfaces, Software & Technology) workshop, held on May 5th and 6th. The participants came from all around the world to spend two days of presenting, sharing, and brainstorming. Everyone worked hard to make the workshop a success. (I'll share more about EIST soon, but if you are curious, the above link will provide you with more information about the program and papers that were presented.)
