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Pass the iPad: collaborative creating and sharing in family groups

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posted on 2023-06-08, 14:16 authored by Nicola YuillNicola Yuill, Yvonne Rogers, Jochen Rick
The increasingly cross-generational use of personal technology portrays families each absorbed in individual devices. Tablets potentially support multi-user working but are currently used as personal devices primarily for consumption, or individual or web-based games. Could tablets support creative co-located groupwork in families and how does such creative work differ from the same task on paper? We designed and evaluated an app requiring individual and group co-creation in families. 262 family groups visiting a science fair played the collaborative drawing game on paper and iPads. Group creations were rated significantly more original and cohesive on iPads than paper. Detailed video analysis of seven family groups showed how tablets support embodiment and use of digital traces, and how the different media sustain individual and shared actions at different stages in the creative process. We sketch out implications for ownership and ‘scrap computers’: going beyond personally-owned devices and developing collaborative apps to support groupwork with tablets.

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Proceeding CHI '13 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Publisher

ACM

Page range

941-950

Pages

3498.0

Book title

CHI '13 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Paris, France — April 27 - May 02, 2013

Place of publication

New York

ISBN

9781450318990

Department affiliated with

  • Psychology Publications

Notes

see also archived video

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2013-03-18

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-03-22

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-03-22

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