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Espaistory - Invent your world

We developed a system to support the collaborative creation of site specific narratives by children. Soon more information about the project.
08.09.2016

 

 

What is the project about? 

EspaiStory is a Mixed Reality system that allows children to create and interact with their own narratives in and on physical space. Children will use special mobile devices to project their characters and their stories on the surrounding physical space. They will also physically interact with their stories as if the characters were alive and present in the same shared space. 

Which goals does it have within this research?

We compared two AR/MR interaction paradigms for mobile technologies: (1) the consolidated "Window-on-the-World" (WoW), and (2) the emerging "World-as-Support" (WaS). By analyzing children's understanding and use of space while playing an AR/MR mystery game, and analyzing the collaboration that emerges among them, we show that the two paradigms scaffold children's attention differently during the experience and elicit different forms of collaboration. We conclude by presenting a conceptual framework to distinguish the strengths, weaknesses, and potential of the two AR/MR paradigms, as well as the comparison between marker-based and marker-less technical solutions. 

More information about the project can be found on our research group website.

Related Publications:

Laura Malinverni, Cristina Valero, Marie-Monique Schaper, and Narcis Pares. (2018). A conceptual framework to compare two paradigms of augmented and mixed reality experiences. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children. (IDC ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7-18. DOI= http://doi.org/10.1145/3202185.3202750

Laura Malinverni, Julian Maya, Marie-Monique Schaper and Narcis Pares. (2017). The World-as-Support: Embodied Exploration, Understanding and Meaning-Making of the Augmented World. In Proceedings of the 35th CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025955

 

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