LSRI: Using technology to support children's collaboration in work and play

Nicola Yuill
University of Sussex

How do we distinguish gimmicks from the genuinely useful when looking at how technology can support collaboration? Should we enforce or enable collaboration, and how much of what we observe is a response to mere novelty?

I will discuss recent research we have done on the ShareIT project (www.shareitproject.org) and other work in our lab (http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/research/chatlab/) to look at how technology might support or stifle some of the psychological underpinnings of collaboration – awareness of the other, joint attention and joint action – and how examining these processes needs to be part of our investigation of technology-supported social activity. No

This seminar will take place in Room 35a, Flexible Learning Room, LSRI, The Exchange, Jubilee Campus