Pandemic Pivot: Designing a Participatory Simulation to Support Social Distancing and Remote Learning

K. K. Lamberty; Audrey Le Meur; Paul Friederichsen; Joseph Moonan Walbran

doi:10.1145/3459990.3465192

Pandemic Pivot: Designing a Participatory Simulation to Support Social Distancing and Remote Learning

K. K. Lamberty, Audrey Le Meur, Paul Friederichsen, Joseph Moonan Walbran

Computer Science (Morris)

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Abstract

Participatory simulations usually aim to bring simulations off screen into a shared physical space with people acting as agents in the simulation. In this paper, we describe considerations and design decisions related to creating a participatory simulation for use in learning settings with restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic where typical classroom interactions were no longer allowed. We describe how our design decisions might help children both "dive in"and "step out"to understand more about pollinators and the prairie in spite of various restrictions on how exactly they can interact with each other. Our simulation, Buzz About, uses augmented reality in a multi-device setting to allow learners to explore the impacts of a prairie restoration on local beneficial pollinators from the perspective of a bee. We focus on supporting scenarios where the children may be in a shared space with social-distancing requirements or participating remotely, but synchronously.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	577-582
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450384520
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3465192
State	Published - Jun 24 2021
Event	2021 ACM Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021 - Virtual, Online, Greece Duration: Jun 24 2021 → Jun 30 2021

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Name	Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021

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Conference	2021 ACM Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Virtual, Online
Period	6/24/21 → 6/30/21

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Funding Information:
Funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR). The Trust Fund is a permanent fund constitutionally established by the citizens of Minnesota to assist in the protection, conservation, preservation, and enhancement of the state’s air, water, land, fish, wildlife, and other natural resources.

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© 2021 Owner/Author.

Keywords

Augmented Reality
Children
Distance Learning
Learning
Participatory Simulations

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Lamberty, K. K., Le Meur, A., Friederichsen, P., & Walbran, J. M. (2021). Pandemic Pivot: Designing a Participatory Simulation to Support Social Distancing and Remote Learning. In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021 (pp. 577-582). (Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3465192

Pandemic Pivot: Designing a Participatory Simulation to Support Social Distancing and Remote Learning. / Lamberty, K. K.; Le Meur, Audrey; Friederichsen, Paul et al.
Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021. p. 577-582 (Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021).

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Lamberty, KK, Le Meur, A, Friederichsen, P & Walbran, JM 2021, Pandemic Pivot: Designing a Participatory Simulation to Support Social Distancing and Remote Learning. in Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021. Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 577-582, 2021 ACM Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021, Virtual, Online, Greece, 6/24/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3465192

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