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Cockburn, A. and Greenberg, S. (1996)
Children’s Collaboration Styles in a Newtonian MicroWorld. In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System, Companion Proceedings – ACM CHI’96. ACM Press, pages 181-182.
Type: Refereed conference (short paper).
Also as: Report 1995-580-32, December.
DOI: 10.1145/257089.257247
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Abstract.
TurboTurtle is a animated multi-user microworld that children use to explore concepts in Newtonian physics. It is a groupware system where students, each on their own computer, can simultaneous control the microworld and gesture in a shared view. Observations of pairs of young children using TurboTurtle highlight extremes in collaboration styles, from conflict to smooth interaction.
Keywords: Computer supported collaborative learning, microworlds.