Design of IoT Tangibles for Primary Schools

Melonio, Alessandra; Rizvi, Mehdi; Bonani, Andrea

doi:10.1145/3125571.3125591

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“…However, the workshop did not include an ideation stage, and the devices as well as the chosen programming environment were not designed for children. An example of such cards for children is instead reported in Gennari, Melonio, Rizvi et al (2017); although input and output cards were for a specific technology, they were used to move children from ideation to programming.…”

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confidence: 99%

The evolution of a toolkit for smart-thing design with children through action research

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Melonio

Rizvi

et al. 2022

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

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Section: Technology Cardsmentioning

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The evolution of a toolkit for smart-thing design with children through action research

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Melonio

Rizvi

et al. 2022

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

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“…Sets or decks of cards, such as the IoT Card Set [2], the IoT Design Deck [10] and the Tiles Cards [27], have been used for co-designing or augmenting every-day's objects with smart behaviours. Adapted versions of Tiles Cards were employed in co-design workshops with children as well [13,26].…”

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A Board-Game for Co-Designing Smart Nature Environments in Workshops with Children

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Melonio

Roumelioti

2019

End-User Development

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In recent years, the Human Computer Interaction community has increasingly engaged children in the design process of technology for them as co-designers, and recently as protagonists in co-design. It has also recognised the need of "bringing children back to nature". This paper combines both lines of research, giving children the role of protagonist co-designers of smart nature ecosystems. In order to engage children as co-designers, the research reported in this paper has employed a playful solution: a board game for children for co-designing smart interactive objects for outdoors nature ecosystems. This paper illustrates the genesis and recent evolution of the board-game in two workshops with children of different ages and gender. Its conclusions draw lessons for involving children as protagonist co-designers of smart nature ecosystems. Keywords: Smart nature • children • co-design • cultures of participation and meta-design approaches.

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“…Participatory design or co-design more in general strive to enhance environments where people live by engaging them in designing or re-designing the environments themselves [14]. Although there are several participatory or codesign workshops with cards or other generative toolkits for designing smart or IoT objects with children, e.g., for enhancing cities [13] or for creating socioemotional bonds [7,8], there are fewer workshops for co-designing with children smart nature ecosystems. An exception is by Smart Toy LLC, which partnered with the National Wildlife Federation in USA to create a mobile gamified app and a companion smart toy that encourage USA children to connect with nature [10].…”

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confidence: 99%