LIT Room

LIT Room and Kit

Schafer

The LIT ROOM, a Literacy Support Tool at Room-scale

Words Became Worlds: The LIT ROOM, a Literacy Support Tool at Room-scale

The LIT ROOM, transforming through co-creative, dialogical reading and exploration.

LITKit: Children Programming

LITKit: Read aloud

LITKit: Embodied Interaction

LITKit: Group Read aloud

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Project Description:

Illiteracy is a global problem that impacts societal and economic growth and development, and is directly correlated with the financial success, health and overall wellbeing of individuals. Studies indicate that picturebook reading within a facilitated storytime setting is an important tool for language acquisition in children. The proposed research hypothesizes that in an increasingly digital society, literacy can be cultivated in a robotembedded environment that is, at once, physical, digital and evocative of the picturebook being read. Inspired by concepts of embodied interaction, the research team proposes the design, implementation and evaluation of an intelligent, finetunable suite of architecturalrobotic artifacts the LIT ROOM distributed at roomscale in a public library setting. Through a reconfigurable, coadaptive learning environment, the LIT ROOM aims to augment the dialogical reading of picturebooks within an engaging and exploratory space for the advancement of literacy and learning.

Resource

Investigators:

- Keith Evan Green(PI)
- Ian D.Walker
- Susam King Fullerton
- George Schafer
- Amith Vijaykumar

Publications:

IDC '13 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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Partners:

Richaland Library
Columbia, South Carolina
Richland One School District
Columbia South Carolina
Stone Academy Element ary Sch.
Greenville, South Carolina

Website:

The LITKIT team :https://arl.human.cornell.edu/research-LITKIT.html

Funding:

U.S. National Science Foundation # IIS1352992