Quantified recess: Design of an activity for elementary students involving analyses of their own movement data

Authors

Victor R. Lee, Utah State UniversityFollow
Joel R. Drake, Utah State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Paper

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Editor

Juan Pablo Hourcade, Ellen A. Miller, & Anna Egeland

Publisher

ACM

Publication Date

Summer 2013

First Page

273

Last Page

276

Abstract

Recess is often a time for children in school to engage recreationally in physically demanding and highly interactive activities with their peers. This paper describes a design effort to encourage fifth-grade students to examine sensitivities associated with different measures of center by having them analyze activities during recess using over the course of a week using Fitbit activity trackers and TinkerPlots data visualization software. We describe the activity structure some observed student behaviors during the activity. We also provide a descriptive account, based on video records and transcripts, of two students who engaged thoughtfully with their recess data and developed a more sophisticated understanding of when and how outliers affect means and medians.

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Recommended Citation

Lee, V. R., & Drake, J. (2013). Quantified recess: Design of an activity for elementary students involving analyses of their own movement data. In J. P. Hourcade, E. A. Miller & A. Egeland (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2013 (pp. 273-276). New York, NY: ACM.