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| -------------------------------------------- i n v e s t i g a t o r s : Keith Evan Green (PI) Design & Mech. Eng., Cornell Ian D. Walker Electr. & Comp. Eng., Clemson Susan King Fullerton Education, Clemson George Schafer PDBE PhD student lead Amith Vijaykumar ECE MS Student -------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------- Right and below: our prototype and pictures from assessments.
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The LIT ROOM | An evocative, literacy support tool at room-scale. o v e r v i e w : The LIT ROOM features a novel suite of user-friendly, networked, “architectural-robotic” artifacts embedded in the everyday physical space of the public library. This cyber-physical environment is transformed by words read by its young visitors so that the everyday space of the public library “merges” with the imaginary space of the book: The book is a room. And should the LIT ROOM’s intelligent reconfigurations not match the imagined spaces of young readers, the young readers “fine-tune” the room through tangible interfaces. Our efficacy studies suggest that literacy can be cultivated in a space that is at once physical and digital and evocative of the book being read. Our test bed was a ground zero for literacy: Richland Library of Columbia, South Carolina – the largest public library in a state that ranks among the lowest in the “State Technology and Science Index,” and among the highest in numbers of people who are both illiterate and living below the poverty line. The broader impacts included a child-centered participatory design process in a real-world public space; a LIT KIT and website that extend the reach of the research, developed in a cross-listed course taught by the Clemson PIs; and the empowerment of children by way of playful interactions with robotic elements. As we come to live, play and work with robots, our team fundamentally strives to cultivate in children the capacity to shape a world that is physical, technical, increasingly digital and inherently social. Words become worlds.
p u b l i c a t i o n s : Schafer. G, Green, K. E., Walker, I. D. and Lewis, E. A Networked Suite of Mixed-Technology Robotic Artifacts for Advancing Literacy in Children. Proceedings of IDC 2012: the International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, June 12-15, Bremen, Germany, Germany, pp. 168-171. Publications on our The LIT KIT - the "portable LIT ROOM": p r e s s : r e s o u r c e s :
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