Opportunistic uses of the traditional school day through student examination of Fitbit activity tracker data
Opportunistic uses of the traditional school day through student examination of Fitbit activity tracker data
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通过学生检查 Fitbit 活动追踪器数据,机会性地利用传统上课时间
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10.1145/2771839.2771861
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2015
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Jeffrey Thayne
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Victor R. Lee;Joel Drake;Ryan Cain;Jeffrey Thayne
In large part due to the highly prescribed nature of the typical school day for children, efforts to design new interactions with technology have often focused on less-structured after-school clubs and other out-of-school environments. We argue that while the school day imposes serious restrictions, school routines can and should be opportunistically leveraged by designers and by youth. Specifically, wearable activity tracking devices open some new avenues for opportunistic collection of and reflection on data from the school day. To demonstrate this, we present two cases from an elementary statistics classroom unit we designed that intentionally integrated wearable activity trackers and child-created data visualizations. The first case involves a group of students comparing favored recess activities to determine which was more physically demanding. The second case is of a student who took advantage of her knowledge of teachers' school day routines to test the reliability of a Fitbit activity tracker against a commercial mobile app.