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Engaging children in longitudinal behavioral studies through playful technologies

Authors:

Evangelos Karapanos,

Rúben Gouveia,

Valentina Nisi,

Nuno J. NunesAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '13: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 396 - 399

https://doi.org/10.1145/2485760.2485817

Published: 24 June 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Measuring children's behaviors and experiences has been one of the core interests of the field of Child-Computer Interaction. However, maintaining children's engagement in the evaluation process is one of the challenges that researchers need to meet. In this paper we introduce Playful Booth, a system that aimed at engaging children in playful photo taking practices with the goal of capturing their social interactions over prolonged periods of time. We then present a 4-week-long deployment of Playful Booth with a total of seventy children that aimed at addressing three research questions. First, does playful booth create initial engagement on children and does it sustain this engagement over prolonged periods of time? Second, can the deployment be sustained for prolonged periods of time with minimal resources? Last, do behavioral data as captured from playful booth reflect children's actual social participation in the school community?

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Engaging children in longitudinal behavioral studies through playful technologies
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2930674.2930704
José Ferreira MCaraban ALyra OBelim VKarapanos EMase KLangheinrich MGatica-Perez DGellersen HChoudhury TYatani K(2015)Why alone?Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers10.1145/2800835.2800921(209-212)Online publication date: 7-Sep-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2800835.2800921
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2663806.2663828
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