ERIC Number: ED658361
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Publication Date: 2023
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Coordinated Multi-Hand Inscriptions with Collaborative Immersive Spatial Diagrams
Camden Bock; Justin Dimmel; Brooke Howlett; Joshua Bohm
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (45th, Reno, NV, Oct 1-4, 2023)
Immersive spatial diagrams (three-dimensional diagrams rendered with immersive stereoscopic displays) offer learners the opportunity to extend practices of diagramming in school geometry into a human-scale, spatial context. Learners can use two or more hands to inscribe simultaneously with digital spatial painting tools, a spatial analog of the input affordances of multi-touch tablets. In this study, we describe how learners coordinate their use of multi-hand spatial painting tools to inscribe diagrams. In particular, with human-scale spatial diagrams, learners' embodied inscriptions can center them within the diagram (e.g., with one's torso as an axis) and realize mathematical relationships (e.g., an arm sweeping a circle as a radius). Our analysis suggests that the design of spatial diagramming environments should consider the opportunities for embodied connections afforded by large-scale, collaborative, and multi-handed interactions. [For the complete proceedings, see ED658295.]
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Geometry, Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Spatial Ability, Mathematics Activities, Handheld Devices, Visual Aids, Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Design, Painting (Visual Arts)
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 2145517
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