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Designing Smarter Touch-Based Interfaces for Educational Contexts Lisa Anthony†, Quincy Brown‡, Berthel Tate‡, Jaye Nias‡, Robin Brewer†, Germaine Irwin† UMBC†, Bowie State University ‡ lanthony@, qbrown@ Abstract consciously adapt their interactions to each new digital device or tool. Rather, they will be able to use existing tools and abilities they have learned in other In next-generation classrooms and educational apps, allowing them to focus on the learning tasks or environments, interactive technologies such as goals at hand. surface computing, natural gesture interfaces, and We present our work on the fundamental building mobile devices will enable new means of motivating blocks of this next generation of education and engaging students in active learning. Our technology, specifically dealing with touch and foundational studies provide a corpus of over 10,000 gesture interactions enabled by surface computing touch interactions and nearly 7,000 gestures devices such as smartphones. We believe that this set collected from nearly 70 adults and children ages 7 of modalities will be common in the near-term next years old and up, that can help us understand the wave of educational applications, because of the characteristics of children’s interactions in these growing adoption of mobile touchscreen devices modalities and how they differ from adults. Based on