Enforcing Cooperative Storytelling: First Studies

Giulia Gelmini (1) , Alessandro Cappelletti (1) , Fabio Pianesi (1) , Franca Rossi (1) , Massimo Zancanaro (1)

1 Center for Scientific and Technological Research ITC-irst

In this paper, we describe the first prototype of a system called StoryTable, aimed at supporting a group of children in the activity of storytelling. The system is based on a special multi-user touchable device (the MERL DiamondTouch) and it was designed with the purpose of enforcing collaboration between children. The paper discusses how the main design choices were influenced by the paradigm of cooperative learning and presents two observational studies to assess the effects of the different design choices on the storytelling activity.

Keywords: storytelling; single display groupware; children

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Giulia Gelmini, Alessandro Cappelletti, Fabio Pianesi, Franca Rossi, Massimo Zancanaro. Enforcing Cooperative Storytelling: First Studies. International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2004, 2004, Joensuu, Finland. 5 p. ⟨hal-00190119⟩