“I’m Better Off on my Own”: Understanding How a Tutorial’s Medium Affects Physical Skill Development
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The shift towards distance learning brought forth by the pandemic has highlighted the shortcomings of teaching physical skills at a distance. With the emergence of new augmented and connected mediums, new opportunities arise for transferring physical skills that have resisted traditional documentation methods. However, there lacks a framework that allows tutorial authors to capitalize on a new medium’s unique affordances rather than remediating existing tutorial conventions. Our work analyzes a body of tutorials rendered in various mediums for centering clay on a pottery wheel — a foundational skill that exemplifies the difficulties of physical skill transfer. Through the lens of McLuhan’s “The Medium is the Message” we synthesize a taxonomy of medium conventions and themes derived from analyzing a body of centering tutorials and observation of how a tutorial’s medium affects how learners develop physical skills. We leverage our findings to motivate design recommendations to inform how new mediums can support material practices.
Publication Date
7-2-2021
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Endow, Shreyosi and Torres, Cesar, "“I’m Better Off on my Own”: Understanding How a Tutorial’s Medium Affects Physical Skill Development" (2021). Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications. 52.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/utalibraries_acmoapubs/52