TICLE: using multimedia multimodal guidance to enhance learning

Tangible Interfaces for Collaborative Learning Environments (TICLE) explores new ways that multimedia can enhance education without becoming the focus of the educational experience. A TICLE system ``watches'' as children work together on puzzles and other educational tasks in a physical environment. The system then responds as a ``guide on the side'', providing the sort of encouragement and prodding that a teacher would. This builds on children's innate love of puzzles, their collaborative tendencies, and their inclination to learn by doing. Although such a system cannot replace a quali

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: ISCI
• Authors: Lori L. Scarlatos
• Keywords: Collaborative Learning Environments, ISCI 2002, Puzzle, Tangible Interfaces