Exploring the Potential of Tabletops for Collaborative Learning

摘要

Digital tabletops, with their multi-touch surfaces, are innovation that could provide new opportunities for learning. They could support rich interactive collaborative activities while maintaining natural face-to-face communication. Nevertheless, we still know little about the potential learning outcomes and the situations they favor. We have explored how group activities on table-tops could encourage collaboration on the same tabletop but also between multiple tabletops. In particular, we focus on the potential of tabletops to favor learning during a brainstorming activity.