Social eBooks with game-like conversations with characters, small-group discussions and Natural Language Processing, as read/played by Slovenian fourth graders

• In Event: Games and Learning

Short Description

Web-based eBooks, with game-like conversations with characters and small group discussions, may influence fourth graders’ reading motivation. We investigated these research questions about interactive eBooks: (a) how do individual and social forms of interaction influence each other, i.e., “How does individual game-like interaction influence social small-group discussions?” and (b) “How do staging factors, such as format of usernames, influence the quality of small group online discussions?” A Fulbright Scholar award funded this research in Slovenia.

Authors

• Presenter: Glenn Gordon Smith, University of South Florida

• Contributor: Tomaž Petek, University of Ljubljana

• Contributor: Slavko Žitnik, University of Ljubljana