This research examines small group collaboration on the Augmented Reality (AR) Sandbox, an interactive, real-time topographical simulator that provides a color layer of augmentation showing depths and height, contour lines, and hydrology vis-a-vis the terrain of sand in a box. Prior research has focused on AR Sandbox activity designs, outcome measures, and user’s perceptions of different usability functions. No research to date has examined the situated processes by which groups engage in CSCL activities on the AR Sandbox as they participate in authentic forms of topographical studies. Taking a dialogic stance to examine CSCL using AR, in this study we draw on previous scholarship about distributed spatial sensemaking to analyze the way groups interact over material, social, and activity contexts. Based on an Interaction Analysis methodology, our findings point to the different resources that are coordinated with the use of the AR Sandbox; the different ways that turn-taking during distributed spatial sensemaking occurs; and the intricacy and speed by which multimodal resources are used to advance spatial thinking. The implications of this research broaden views of distributed spatial sensemaking, provide novel methodological tools to examine this phenomena, and suggest different levels of analysis and expectations for studies on the AR Sandbox.

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增强现实沙盒上的分布式空间感知

这项研究考察了增强现实（AR）沙盒上的小组协作，该沙盒是一个交互式的实时地形模拟器，可提供彩色增强层，以显示沙丘中的深度和高度，等高线和水文状况。一个盒子。先前的研究集中在AR沙盒活动设计，结果度量以及用户对不同可用性功能的理解上。迄今为止，尚无任何研究检查群体参与真实地形学形式时，其在AR沙盒上从事CSCL活动的过程。采取对话立场来使用AR检查CSCL，在这项研究中，我们借鉴了以前关于分布式空间感官研究的研究成果，以分析群体在物质，社会和活动背景下的互动方式。根据互动分析方法，我们的发现指出了与AR沙箱的使用相协调的不同资源；在分布式空间感知中发生转向的不同方式；以及利用多式联运资源推进空间思考的复杂性和速度。这项研究的意义拓宽了分布式空间感官的视野，提供了新颖的方法论工具来检验这种现象，并提出了对AR沙盒进行研究的不同分析水平和期望。