An automatic approach for mining patterns of collaboration around an interactive tabletop

Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Judy Kay, Kalina Yacef

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Abstract

Learning to collaborate is important. But how does one learn to collaborate face-to-face? What are the actions and strategies to follow for a group of students who start a task? We analyse aspects of students' collaboration when working around a multi-touch tabletop enriched with sensors for identifying users, their actions and their verbal interactions. We provide a technological infrastructure to help understand how highly collaborative groups work compared to less collaborative ones. The contributions of this paper are (1) an automatic approach to distinguish, discover and distil salient common patterns of interaction within groups, by mining the logs of students' tabletop touches and detected speech; and (2) the instantiation of this approach in a particular study. We use three data mining techniques: a classification model, sequence mining, and hierarchical clustering. We validated our approach in a study of 20 triads building solutions to a posed question at an interactive tabletop. We demonstrate that our approach can be used to discover patterns that may be associated with strategies that differentiate high and low collaboration groups.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence in Education - 16th International Conference, AIED 2013, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer
Pages101-110
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783642391118
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education 2013 - Memphis, United States of America
Duration: 9 Jul 201313 Jul 2013
Conference number: 16th
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-39112-5 (Proceedings)

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume7926
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education 2013
Abbreviated titleAIED 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States of America
CityMemphis
Period9/07/1313/07/13
Internet address

Keywords

  • CSCL
  • Data Mining
  • Face-to-face Collaboration
  • Tabletops

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