The Multimedia Forum Kiosk

The Multimedia Forum Kiosk is a structured conversation tool and a multimedia bulletin board system designed to support collaborative discourse between multiple participants. The Multimedia Forum Kiosk supports knowledge building by users as they read issues, reflect on comments, and develop a point of view.

Current research projects include using the Kiosk as an assessment and feedback tool for the Synthesis Coalition and using it as a tool for fostering argumentation skills in the Computer as Learning Partner project (8th grade science).

The SpeakEasy

We have extended the software to allow access to our discussion interface via the Netscape World Wide Web client program. The networked software is called the SpeakEasy. A demonstration is available. The system is being used in conjunction with the Synthesis Coalition (an engineering education reform group), the Virtual Classroom Kit project at UC Berkeley's Instructional Technology Program, and the Knowledge Integration Environment project for K-12 Internet-based science education.

Papers

Several papers on the Kiosk are available in hypertext. Please read our copyright policy on these papers . By following these links you agree to respect the copyrights of the papers.

Hsi, S., and Hoadley, C. M. (1997) Productive discussion in science: gender equity through electronic discourse. Journal of Science Education and Technology.
Hoadley, C. M., Hsi, S., and Berman, B. P. (1995) The Multimedia Forum Kiosk and SpeakEasy. In Zellweger, P. (Ed.) Proceedings ACM Multimedia '95. p. 363-364. New York: ACM Press.
Hsi, S., and Hoadley, C. M. (1995) Assessing Curricular Innovation in Engineering: Using the Multimedia Forum Kiosk. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California, April, 1995. (Slides are available from the presentation in Macintosh powerpoint format.)
Hoadley, C. M., Hsi, S., and Berman, B. P. (1995)Networked Multimedia for Communication and Collaboration. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California, April, 1995. (Slides are also available from the presentation in Macintosh powerpoint format.)
Hsi, S. and Hoadley, C. M. (1994) An interactive multimedia kiosk as a tool for collaborative discourse, reflection, and assessment. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April, 1994. (Available from the authors or via ERIC, the Educational Resources Information Clearinghouses).
Hoadley, C. M., and Hsi, S. (1993) A Multimedia Interface for Knowledge Building and Collaborative Learning. Supplement to the proceedings of InterCHI '93 [International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction], Amsterdam, April 24-29, 1993: ACM Press.

The Design Team

These are the individuals involved in the Kiosk/SpeakEasy project:

The Interfaces

The systems provide two representations for fostering better comprehension of discourse and reflection through classication of comments into an argument map.

The opinion area and the discussion area from the Multimedia Forum Kiosk.

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants MDR94-53861 RED91-55744 DGE95-54564 EEC90-53807, by the Evelyn Lois Corey fellowship and the University of California Regents' Fellows program. Any opinions expressed are solely the authors'.