Engaging children in longitudinal behavioral studies through playful technologies

Olga Lyra, Evangelos Karapanos, Rúben Gouveia, Valentina Nisi, Nuno J. Nunes

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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?

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of IDC 2013 - The 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Pages396-399
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2013 - New York, NY, United States
Duration: 24 Jun 201327 Jun 2013

Other

Other12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York, NY
Period24/06/1327/06/13

Keywords

  • Engagement
  • Field studies
  • Playful
  • Social interactions

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