“Cadê o Kauê?” is an interactive digital story that takes place in an instant messaging platform. The user's quest is to find their best friend, Kauê, who has gone missing on the day of the opening night of a school play. As the narrative unfolds, it ...

Fostering young learners’ literacy surrounding AI technologies is becoming increasingly important as AI is becoming integrated in many aspects of our lives and is having far-reaching impacts on society. We have developed Knowledge Net and Creature ...

Robotito is an omnidirectional robot designed and developed at Universidad de la República, Uruguay. It is part of a research line in educational robotics aimed at developing free software and open hardware robots for educational use. It was developed ...

This dissertation studies young people participating meaningfully in making practices in three different contexts, to better understand how we can design for cultural plurality and situate equity for each population of learners at the center. What ...

Families adopt smart home products for convenience and entertainment; however, these products are not designed to support children’s use cases and needs, which leads to child safety issues and family tensions. My previous work has identified the ...

In a post-lockdown context with significant concerns about children's social skills, it is important for technologies to play a positive role in supporting children across cultures, settings, and backgrounds. The research presented in this work-in-...

Computational thinking has been identified as an important skill for children to learn in the 21st century, and many innovative kits and tools have been developed to integrate it into children’s learning. Yet, most solutions require the use of devices ...

Many children born between 2010 and 2016 have access to an unprecedented variety of digital environments which comprise an evolutionarily novel landscape. Parental caregivers must make decisions without traditional environmental knowledge, introducing a ...

Gender stereotypes can be very harmful to young people as their views on the role gender plays in society can have a real impact on their future career prospects and well-being. This project addresses these issues by designing and evaluating a mobile app ...

Integrating music into Computer Science (CS) education can stimulate children’s creativity, change the stereotypical perspective of CS, and encourage women, ethnic or cultural minorities involved in the Computer Science area. In this paper, we use ...

This paper examines facilitator and refugee youth co-design for a summer program and asks: “how do researchers and interns understand ‘facilitation’ and ‘co-design’ in a summer program with refugee youth?” We highlight interactions with Rbekka, a ...

Designing computational toys and kits to welcome young children from different genders is essential to broaden participation in computing, as they play a critical role in facilitating children’s development of computational thinking. However, how young ...

This workshop will convene researchers and stakeholders to share their work on and discuss participatory approaches to the ethics of emerging technologies for children. The workshop builds on prior discussions in the community, which have identified ...

Cognitive reappraisal is a critical emotion regulation skill required for youth mental health. While it has been well theorized psychologically and many therapeutic approaches exist, youth still struggle to develop these skills. We explore the design ...

Observation is common for children to connect with nature, increasing their knowledge and awareness of biodiversity. However, it is challenging for them to make and document their observations due to a lack of observation and drawing skills. Therefore, ...

Prior research has investigated children’s perceptions of algorithmic bias, but provides little guidance on engaging children in conversations on algorithmic bias that center their agency and well-being. To address this, we developed discussions and ...

While programming is a process covering many stages, many of the tasks K-12 students meet at school are small with little need for, e.g., analysis or design. These earlier phases are, however, important to let children meet open-ended problems, ...

Many children are growing up in a “digital-by-default” world, where technologies mediate many of their interactions. There is emerging consensus that those who design technology must support children's privacy and security. However, privacy and security ...

To gain deeper insight into how the creators of children’s technology operationalize child well-being, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 24 industry professionals who create child-centered interactive technologies, including platforms, ...

In this paper, we conduct a content analysis to investigate the implications of the "Age-Appropriate Design Code" for the design of interactive digital media children are likely to use. The "Age-Appropriate Design Code" policy framework, implemented in ...