Virtual joint attention and the construction of collaborative work
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2017.2.26396Keywords:
Virtual joint attention, Collaborative work, Virtual reality.Abstract
The aim of this paper is to discuss the notion of virtual joint attention and the construction of the collaborative work within this process. We analyze data of twenty children, ranging from 22 to 65 months old, playing with the application Mimi©. This game was designed for tablets and it is composed of ten stages in which the child is invited to perform tasks in order to take care of a kitten, through instructions given by the narrator in the virtual reality. The discussion proposed in this paper is based on the theory of joint attention, mainly studied by Bruner (1975) and Tomasello (2003), and the notion of collaborative work discussed by Carpenter and Tomasello (2007). The concept of virtual joint attention (COSTA FILHO, 2016) is constituted when the child interacts with the narrator in the virtual reality. This modified process of joint attention, however, also requires the collaborative work that, as data show, involves both interlocutors in the current reality and in the virtual one. The data also show that it is more difficult to younger children to establish the virtual joint attention and that, for this reason, they search for the current interlocutor more often.
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