Download or read book Interactive Artifacts and Furniture Supporting Collaborative Work and Learning written by Pierre Dillenbourg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how advances in computer science and human-computer interaction impact Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments. The underlying theme of the contributions is the social affordances of physical objects. The collaborative situations illustrated in the book are not necessarily learning situation in a school sense. In summary, this book illustrates a turn in the field of CSCL and emphasizes an important message for a generation of CSCL users.