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MOVES: Going beyond hardwired multisensory environments for children

MOVES: andare oltre gli ambienti multisensoriali cablati per bambini

Cosentino Giulia, Gelsomini Mirko, Giannakos Michail

Venue:

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference

Year:

2023

Type:

Conference Paper

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Abstract (EN)

Multisensory Environments (MSEs) enable different forms of interactions to enhance children's learning and play. While traditional MSEs are "built-in" to a specific space (e.g., a room or a part of a room), our movable solution, named MOVES, goes beyond these constraints by overcoming their "hardwired" nature and enabling children to play and learn through five different interaction modalities: feet, hand, card, wand, and voice. MOVES wooden structure (see Figure 1) hold several devices such as a PC, 2 projectors, a depth sensor, a LED strip, a RFID card reader, a tablet and a Wi-Fi access point to enable discrete immersivity, to offer children different ways to interact and teachers to be always in control of the experience. This paper focuses on presenting the MOVES technology, along with details about its rationale, design, and usage.

Abstract (IT)

Gli ambienti multisensoriali (MSE) consentono diverse forme di interazione per migliorare l'apprendimento e il gioco dei bambini. Mentre gli MSE tradizionali sono 'incorporati' in uno spazio specifico (ad esempio una stanza o parte di essa), la nostra soluzione mobile, chiamata MOVES, va oltre questi vincoli superando la natura 'cablata' e consentendo ai bambini di giocare e imparare attraverso cinque diverse modalità di interazione: piedi, mani, carte, bacchetta e voce. Questo documento presenta la tecnologia MOVES, insieme ai dettagli sul suo razionale, design e utilizzo.

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