| This thesis describes a design-based research study of a recent KCI implementation in a whole-class inquiry elementary science curriculum called WallCology, focusing on the interaction design aspects of its technological support. From that, the thesis builds a framework for HCI design for the specific context of Knowledge Community and Inquiry (KCI), a CSCL model that guides the design of collective inquiry curriculum in which students work together to advance their collective progress on a set of well defined learning goals. This design framework comprises a series of conceptual design principles, guidelines for implementing a visual language for interface design, and an ontology of human-computer interactions that could emerge in a KCI enactment, with examples of GUI design solutions to support them. |
