TouchCounts and Gesture Design
| Autor: | Nicholas Jackiw, Nathalie Sinclair |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
business.industry Computer science 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts computer.software_genre 050105 experimental psychology law.invention Software Touchscreen law Embodied cognition Human–computer interaction Software design 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences business Affordance Competence (human resources) computer Gesture Educational software |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Pen and Touch ISBN: 9783319642383 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-64239-0_4 |
| Popis: | TouchCounts is an iPad app for early number learning that illustrates how the cognitive facets can be mapped on to many of the affordances of the touchscreen tablet environment. Looking at the design of the mathematical gestures that learners use in the software’s interface to count and perform basic arithmetic operations, we find that theories of embodied cognition and gesture analysis (which focus on only sometimes deliberate hand and body motions as supporting acts of communication and reasoning) usefully expand formulations of gestures common in the software design discourse (which constitute gesture as highly deliberate, and unambiguous physical imperatives articulated within a specific software application’s command syntax). We develop this potential contribution in the context of educational software design, where the application purpose is to introduce users to novel conceptual domains, rather than to extend competence or enable expertise within already familiar ones. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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