TY - GEN
T1 - TASC
T2 - 12th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2017
AU - Chang, Jack Shen Kuen
AU - Yeboah, Georgina
AU - Doucette, Alison
AU - Clifton, Paul
AU - Nitsche, Michael
AU - Welsh, Timothy
AU - Mazalek, Ali
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2017/6/10
Y1 - 2017/6/10
N2 - A growing body of empirical evidence from the cognitive sciences shows that physical experience can enhance cognition in areas that involve spatial thinking. At the same time, virtual environments provide opportunities to engage learners with novel spatial tasks that cannot be achieved in the real world. Yet combining virtual worlds with tangible interfaces to engage spatial cognition is still not a wellexplored area. This paper describes the TASC (Tangibles for Augmenting Spatial Cognition) system, which combines movement tracking and tangible objects in order to create a strong sense of embodiment in a virtual environment for spatial puzzle solving, designed to engage perspective taking ability. We describe the motivation, design process, and development of TASC. We also report the results from our user study, showing the participants' positive experiences, linking to future research opportunities.
AB - A growing body of empirical evidence from the cognitive sciences shows that physical experience can enhance cognition in areas that involve spatial thinking. At the same time, virtual environments provide opportunities to engage learners with novel spatial tasks that cannot be achieved in the real world. Yet combining virtual worlds with tangible interfaces to engage spatial cognition is still not a wellexplored area. This paper describes the TASC (Tangibles for Augmenting Spatial Cognition) system, which combines movement tracking and tangible objects in order to create a strong sense of embodiment in a virtual environment for spatial puzzle solving, designed to engage perspective taking ability. We describe the motivation, design process, and development of TASC. We also report the results from our user study, showing the participants' positive experiences, linking to future research opportunities.
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U2 - 10.1145/3064663.3064675
DO - 10.1145/3064663.3064675
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85022222765
T3 - DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
SP - 1239
EP - 1251
BT - DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 10 June 2017 through 14 June 2017
ER -