Frobel Open Gift is an open source version of the Friedrich Fröbel pedagogical material. This material is originally toy design to teach numeracy and math in Kindergarten. But they also could be used to study or teach information visualization (we used it for this purpose). This material is part of VIZKIT a toolkit to teach visual representation during hands on workshops.
Froebel original gift are composed of 10 "gifts" (pedagogical toys). Over the ten original "gifts" we have just re designed the squared tiles from Gift 7 for a FabLab fabrication. Two version are accessibles:
- a 3d printable tile
- a frame to laser cut tiles in plastic sheets
- We also provide the frame to make a container box for the tiles.
We only make a part of Gift 7, That's mean 9 gift remain to be remodel for DIY fabrications. You can see how diverse are the 9 others gifts gift google search. If you want to contribute please, choose one and do it :
- Fork this reporsitory
- Create your own folder gift folder "Gift-NN"
- Add the frame for cutting or the model for printing, eventually a box design
- Photography and document your fabrication process
- and finally make a pull request
Frobel Open Gift was made for research purpose to study constructive visualization paradigm. More information about constructive visualization could be found on the following research paper :
- Constructive visualization paradygm
- Constructing Visual Representations: Investigating the Use of Tangible Tokens
This work have been made by:
- Samuel Huron,
- Romain Di Vozzo,
- Mathieu Le Goc,
- Jean Daniel Fekete
- Sylvia Frederikson
- ( Add your name here by pull requesting your own model of toy. )
First version was forged at:
- Fab Lab Digiscope
- With the participation of INRIA AVIZ team
- and Fabelier and the CRI
- and IRI
- To make the box we used https://github.com/rahulbot/boxmaker
If you use this material for academic research purpose, please cite one of our papers:
- constructive visualization
- Constructing Visual Representations: Investigating the Use of Tangible Tokens
@inproceedings{Huron:2014:CV:2598510.2598566, author = {Huron, Samuel and Carpendale, Sheelagh and Thudt, Alice and Tang, Anthony and Mauerer, Michael}, title = {Constructive Visualization}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems}, series = {DIS '14}, year = {2014}, isbn = {978-1-4503-2902-6}, location = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}, pages = {433--442}, numpages = {10}, url = {http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00978437}, doi = {10.1145/2598510.2598566}, acmid = {2598566}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {assembling, construction, constructionism, constructivism, design, education, visual literacy., visualization}, }
@article{huron:hal-01024053, TITLE = {{Constructing Visual Representations: Investigating the Use of Tangible Tokens}}, AUTHOR = {Huron, Samuel and Jansen, Yvonne and Carpendale, Sheelagh}, URL = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01024053}, JOURNAL = {{IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}}, PUBLISHER = {{Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers}}, SERIES = {Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics}, VOLUME = {20}, NUMBER = {12}, PAGES = {1}, YEAR = {2014}, MONTH = Aug, DOI = {10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346292}, KEYWORDS = {Constructive visualization ; Physical visualization ; Dynamic visualization ; Empirical study ; Token ; Visualization author- ing ; Information visualization ; Visual mapping ; Novices ; Visualization construction ; Visual analytics}, PDF = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01024053/file/00_Camera_ready_IEEE.pdf}, HAL_ID = {hal-01024053}, HAL_VERSION = {v1}, }
More infos could be find on:
- froebel wikipedia page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Fr%C3%B6bel
- froebel Gift video explanation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBzmCKLNdU