Frobel-open-gifts

Frobel Open Gift is an open source version of the Friedrich Fröbel pedagogical material. This material is originally pedagogical toy design to teach numeracy and math in Kindergarten. But they also could be used to study information visualization construction (we used it for this purpose).

What is it:

What we already release:

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.

How to Contribute

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

Our usage

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
• Visual representation construction study

Credit

People

This work have been made by:

• Samuel Huron,
• Romain Di Vozzo,
• Mathieu Le Goc,
• ( Add your name here by sending your own gift. )

Institution

First version was forged at:

• Fab Lab Digiscope
• With the participation of AVIZ team
• and IRI

Papers

If you use this material for research purpose, please cite one of our papers:

• constructive visualization - http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00978437

@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}, }

History:

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