Embodied Communication and Collaboration Within Making Activities (Poster 26)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 3
  In Poster Session: Multimodality, Embodiment, and Emerging Identities (San Diego)

Abstract

Using an embodied cognition perspective, this work discusses insights into youth interpersonal communications and collaboration as they engaged in a making activity. The findings from qualitative analysis of video data reveal that while communicating and collaborating with their group members, students rely on different modalities (e.g., action, gestures, and language). Students were found to be thinking through their embodied cognition and using their body language to communicate their ideas while collaborating with other members of the group to achieve the goals of the activity. We conclude by emphasizing the need to attend to the embodied nature of communication with the complex collaborative making activity.

Authors

• Ekta Shokeen, University of Maryland

• Nihal Katirci, University of Maryland

• Amber Simpson, Binghamton University - SUNY

• Caroline Williams-Pierce, University of Maryland