Abstract. www.nokeyboard.org Haptics Input/Output Coming Soon....
This project will generate a web community to collect a database of types of alternative hardware to current Input/Output [I/O] and quantify
multiple options for learning feedback from novel physical I/O devices. From the list, we will
find 4 or 5 significant alternate tools for input/output which provide physical feedback.
We want to define and populate the domain of novel input/output devices for education.
Group Contact: benshedd@cs.princeton.edu.
Ben Shedd, Chris DiGiano, Philip Fitzsimons, Bakhitiar Mikhak, Tom Greaves, Robbie Berg
I/O devices need expansion beyond the keyboard as the active input device in classrooms. We seek to provide interesting glimpses of future options which will be arriving in the next decade.
Through an internet web site, we will gather lists of devices, stories of use, wish list for future devices, and provide information on devices being developed.
An exploration of how these novel I/O tools may provide new learning outcomes through physical devices.
A team of engineers, programmers, day-dreamer inovators, educators, and entrepreneurs
together will search and generate a survey of technology that will soon be ubiquitous by virtue of
cost efficencies.
The project will seek beta testers and assesment of the devices which appear on the horizon.
Develop a three dimensional comparative grid of options: Kinds of devices, Functions, Educational uses.
Document items and objects where costs have dropped significantly over the last five years. We will create a data base backend and web page front end, where we will seek contributor information from throughout the world. The goal is to seed a world-wide community around this topic.
Create a email group and web site to: draw on knowledge from throughout the world. The CILT team will research details and write the document.
Promote the sharing of anecdotes, needs, devices, and prices.
A key part of our thinking will be to envision potential educational affordances which are now or will be being manufactured soon.
Funding from CILT will be used to provide creative time for the CILT team members and will be used to create web forms for contributing data. From the data, we will survey, document, envision, and disseminate information about the enabling hardware for new I/O devices.
Assessment impact on learner. Changing collaborative relationships among users.
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