Children's Collaborative Storytelling on a Tangible Multitouch Tabletop

According to the literature, tangible multitouch tabletops provide natural and intuitive interaction and afford face-to-face collaboration. Storytelling is an effective method for building conceptual skills and using reasoning to solve problems. This paper reports the evaluation of a tangible multitouch tabletop application (RoboTale) in supporting children’s collaborative storytelling. By examining how children use RoboTale to create and tell stories, this study showed the positive effects and potential improvement in the design of RoboTale.

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