The effect of device number and role assignment on social group dynamics in location-based learning

Bianca Clavio Christensen; Alexandros Panagiotis Giakalis; Nicolai Melgaard Jørgensen; Mark Kronborg Poulsen; Matthias Rehm

doi:10.1145/3012709.3012711

The effect of device number and role assignment on social group dynamics in location-based learning

Bianca Clavio Christensen, Alexandros Panagiotis Giakalis, Nicolai Melgaard Jørgensen, Mark Kronborg Poulsen, Matthias Rehm

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Abstract

The behavior of being disengaged in group work is commonly defined as social loafing. This disengagement can be reduced by various factors, such as group members having individual accountability in the form of unique tasks. This paper examines social loafing in a collaborative mobile game in groups of three users. The game promotes individual accountability in role differentiation on a shared tablet, and these roles are compared to a condition without roles. Another condition tested if a shared tablet would reduce social loafing, compared to individual tablets for each group member. The game was tested on 41 students from 7th to 8th grade. Using a tablet each showed significantly more instances of social loafing compared to sharing one. The results show no significant difference for role assignment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM)
Number of pages	10
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2016
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4860-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3012709.3012711
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia - Rovaniemi, Rovaniemi, Finland Duration: 12 Dec 2016 → 15 Dec 2016 http://www.mum-conf.org/2016/

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Conference	International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
Location	Rovaniemi
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Rovaniemi
Period	12/12/2016 → 15/12/2016
Internet address	http://www.mum-conf.org/2016/

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Location-based interaction
Mobile Learning
Social group dynamics
smart learning ecosystems

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Christensen, BC, Giakalis, AP, Jørgensen, NM, Poulsen, MK & Rehm, M 2016, The effect of device number and role assignment on social group dynamics in location-based learning. in Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM). Association for Computing Machinery, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Rovaniemi, Finland, 12/12/2016. https://doi.org/10.1145/3012709.3012711

The effect of device number and role assignment on social group dynamics in location-based learning. / Christensen, Bianca Clavio; Giakalis, Alexandros Panagiotis; Jørgensen, Nicolai Melgaard et al.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM). Association for Computing Machinery, 2016.

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