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Contingency and Control

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Control influences how collaboration around technology works, through its means (e.g. mouse, touch) and distribution (simultaneous or sequential, shared or single). Single control can produce dominance and disengagement, but shared control needs support for awareness. Awareness, such as through gesture, bodily movement and talking, affects control. Collaboration requires actions controlled by one individual to be contingent on the actions of others, so as to create a connected flow of joint action, rather than a series of unconnected moves. Contingent behaviour can be supported through constraints, for example the SCoSS paradigm.

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Yuill, N. (2021). Contingency and Control. In: Technology to Support Children's Collaborative Interactions. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75047-3_3

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