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StoryTime: a new way for children to write

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Alex Kuhn,

Chris Quintana,

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IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1551788.1551834

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The StoryTime project explores the benefits of and issues surrounding the use of mobile finger-touch devices to support struggling writers. StoryTime is a mobile finger-touch tool designed from a learner-centered design perspective to be a supportive writing tool for children 7--9 years old. StoryTime allows children to write stories by providing simpler writing mechanics, increased user engagement, and a contextualized writing experience. The combination of these attributes allows struggling writers to focus more on the sentence construction task. Here we describe the iterative design and testing of three versions of StoryTime on 13 children to date.

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1. Human-centered computing
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