2016
Alissa N. Antle, Brendan Matkin, Jill Warren. 2016. The Story of Things: Awareness through Happenstance Interaction Proceedings Article . In Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '16 Association for Computing Machinery, Manchester, United Kingdom, 745–750, .
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: augmented reality, children, environmental education, hands-on interaction, happenstance interaction, sensing systems, situated learning, wearable displays
@inproceedings{10.1145/2930674.2955211,
title = {The Story of Things: Awareness through Happenstance Interaction},
author = {Alissa N. Antle and Brendan Matkin and Jill Warren},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2930674.2955211},
doi = {10.1145/2930674.2955211},
isbn = {9781450343138},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children},
pages = {745–750},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {Manchester, United Kingdom},
series = {IDC '16},
abstract = {The Story of Things (SoT) system enables children to learn the story behind every object they touch in a typical day. Inspired by Living Media and the Internet of Things (IoT) our goal is to change children's awareness through hands-on interaction with the world they live in. A back-of-the-hand display is activated by stick-on finger sensors when a child touches an object. They can tap the display to select from a number of stories stored in a crowd sourced database about that object: the materials it was made from; the processes used to make it; how it impacts their body; how it will be disposed of; environmental or social rights challenges associated with the object; and how they can take positive action. This information is overlaid on the world through an augmented-reality contact lens. SoT will also enable children to see a trace of each day and in doing so help them better understand their environmental footprint and how their actions and choices can change the world for the better or worse.},
keywords = {augmented reality, children, environmental education, hands-on interaction, happenstance interaction, sensing systems, situated learning, wearable displays},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
The Story of Things (SoT) system enables children to learn the story behind every object they touch in a typical day. Inspired by Living Media and the Internet of Things (IoT) our goal is to change children's awareness through hands-on interaction with the world they live in. A back-of-the-hand display is activated by stick-on finger sensors when a child touches an object. They can tap the display to select from a number of stories stored in a crowd sourced database about that object: the materials it was made from; the processes used to make it; how it impacts their body; how it will be disposed of; environmental or social rights challenges associated with the object; and how they can take positive action. This information is overlaid on the world through an augmented-reality contact lens. SoT will also enable children to see a trace of each day and in doing so help them better understand their environmental footprint and how their actions and choices can change the world for the better or worse.