Article

Supporting children's emotional expression and exploration in online environments

Author:

Alissa AntleAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '04: Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Interaction design and children: building a community

Pages 97 - 104

https://doi.org/10.1145/1017833.1017846

Published: 01 June 2004 Publication History

Abstract

Children are routinely exposed to adult-oriented news and current events. Outside of their families, they rarely have forums in which they can explore and express their reactions to and feelings about these events. This paper introduces OutBurst (<u>http://archived.cbc4kids.cbcr3.com/</u>), a networked, participatory activity where children can express and explore their intimate feelings about news and current events. Outlined in this paper are the child-centric requirements, design and evaluation practices used to create OutBurst; a discussion of questions that were raised in the design process; findings culled from a summative evaluation of the entire CBC4Kids pilot; and a description of the subsequent content analysis of child-generated submissions. Our investigations show evidence of children expressing and exploring their emotional reactions to adult-oriented news stories. However, many of our original questions about the utility of an online environment to support these aims remain outstanding and require further exploration.

References

[1]

Antle, A. N. Case Study: The Design of CBC4Kids' StoryBuilder. Proceedings of Interaction Design for Children (Preston, UK, July 2003), ACM Press, 59-68.

Digital Library

[2]

Antle, A. N. Team immersion: Using variants of persona-based design with children (in progress - current version available from the author.)

[3]

Auwarter, M. Development of communicative skills: the construction of fictional reality in children's play. In: Cook-Gumperz (ed.) Children's worlds and children's language. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 1986.

[4]

Just Kid Inc. An environmental scan of children's interactive media from 2000 to 2002: An executive summary. Markle Foundation, June 2002. www.markle.org/News/JustKidExecutiveSummary.pdf.

[5]

Fishel, C. Designing for Children: Marketing Design that Speaks to Kids. Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA, 2001.

[6]

Dehn, D. and van Mulken S. The impact of animated interface agents: a review of empirical research. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 52, 1 (January 2000), 1--22.

Digital Library

[7]

Druin, A. (ed.). The Design of Children's Technology. Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1999.

Digital Library

[8]

Hanna, L., Risden, K, and Alexander, K. J. Guidelines for usability testing with children. Interactions (September/October 1997), 9-14.

Digital Library

[9]

Goodwin, K. Perfecting your personas. http://www.cooper.com/newsletters/2001_07/perfecting_your_personas.htm

[10]

Jones, A. and Selby, C. The use of computers for self-expression and communication. Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 8, 2/3, 1997, 199-214.

Digital Library

[11]

McCloud, M. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. Kitchen Sink Press, Northampton, MA, 1993.

[12]

O'Neill, B. and McMahon, H. Opening new windows with Bubble Dialogue, Computers and Education. 17, 1991, 29-35.

Digital Library

[13]

Pennebaker, J. W. What our words can say about us: Toward a broader language psychology. Psychological Science Agenda, 15, 2002, 8-9.

[14]

Robertson, J. The effectiveness of a virtual role-play environment as a preparation activity for story writing. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2001. (available at http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/judyr/publications.html)

[15]

Sanders, E. B. Virtuosos of the Experience Domain. IDSA Design Education Conference (2001) http://www.idsa.org/whatsnew/01ed_proceed/papers.htm

[16]

Wartella, E., O'Keefe, B. and Scantlin, R. Children and interactive media - A compendium of current research and directions for the future. Markle Foundation, May 2001. http://www.markle.org/news/digital_kids.pdf

[17]

Wilkinson, A., Barnsley, G., Hanna, P., and Swan, M. Assessing Language Development. Oxford University Press, 1980.

[18]

Wilkinson, A. Assessing language development: The Crediton Project. In Freedman, A. Pringle, I. & Yaldon J., (eds.) Learning to Write: First Language/Second Language. Longman, Inc., New York, 1983.

Cited By

Salminen JChhirang KJung SJansen B(2021)Helping Professionals Select Persona Interview Questions Using Natural Language ProcessingHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 202110.1007/978-3-030-85613-7_20(280-290)Online publication date: 26-Aug-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85613-7_20
Gourlet PGiannakos MJaccheri LDivitini M(2018)Children's conversation with experienceProceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/3202185.3202734(313-324)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3202185.3202734
Hashemi MHerbert JRead JStenton P(2016)Child-centred design supported by comprehensive child application use analysisProceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/2930674.2936013(707-712)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2930674.2936013
Show More Cited By

Recommendations

Children's perception of musical emotional expressions
COST 2102'07: Proceedings of the 2007 COST action 2102 international conference on Verbal and nonverbal communication behaviours

This study investigates on children's ability to interpret emotions in instrumentally-presented melodies. 40 children (20 males and 20 females) all aged six years, have been tested for the comprehension of emotional concepts through the correct matching ...
Position Paper: An Emoji-Based Interactive App to Aid Emotion Expression for Autistic Children
UbiComp '24: Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition typically characterized by two core characteristics as restricted, repetitive behaviors and impairment in social communication. As such, a large portion of the technology studies within the ...
Children's Aspirations and Emotional and Behavioural Problems

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

IDC '04: Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Interaction design and children: building a community

June 2004

190 pages

ISBN:1581137915

DOI:10.1145/1017833

Conference Chair:
Allison Druin
University of Maryland

Copyright © 2004 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 01 June 2004

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Article

Conference

IDC04

Sponsor:

SIGCHI

IDC04: Interaction Design and Children

June 1 - 3, 2004

Maryland

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 172 of 578 submissions, 30%

Upcoming Conference

IDC '25

Sponsor:
sigchi

Interaction Design and Children

June 23 - 26, 2025

Reykjavik , Iceland

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

9
Total Citations
View Citations
1,246
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)10
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 18 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Salminen JChhirang KJung SJansen B(2021)Helping Professionals Select Persona Interview Questions Using Natural Language ProcessingHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 202110.1007/978-3-030-85613-7_20(280-290)Online publication date: 26-Aug-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85613-7_20
Gourlet PGiannakos MJaccheri LDivitini M(2018)Children's conversation with experienceProceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/3202185.3202734(313-324)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3202185.3202734
Hashemi MHerbert JRead JStenton P(2016)Child-centred design supported by comprehensive child application use analysisProceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/2930674.2936013(707-712)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2930674.2936013
Antle A(2008)Child-based personas: need, ability and experienceCognition, Technology and Work10.1007/s10111-007-0071-210:2(155-166)Online publication date: 26-Mar-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10111-007-0071-2
Kelliher ADavenport G(2007)Everyday storytellingProceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: applications and services10.5555/1769451.1769558(926-933)Online publication date: 22-Jul-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1769451.1769558
Kelliher ADavenport G(2007)Everyday Storytelling: Supporting the Mediated Expression of Online Personal TestimonyHuman-Computer Interaction. HCI Applications and Services10.1007/978-3-540-73111-5_102(926-933)Online publication date: 2007
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73111-5_102
Antle ACarroll JBødker SCoughlin J(2006)Child-personasProceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems10.1145/1142405.1142411(22-30)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142405.1142411
Antle AOlson GJeffries R(2006)Child-user abstractionsCHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1125451.1125556(478-483)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1125451.1125556
Jensen JSkov MEisenberg MEisenberg A(2005)A review of research methods in children's technology designProceedings of the 2005 conference on Interaction design and children10.1145/1109540.1109551(80-87)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1109540.1109551

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten