Interactive Playgrounds for Children

Poppe, Ronald; Delden, Robby van; Moreno, Alejandro García; Reidsma, Dennis

doi:10.1007/978-981-4560-96-2_5

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“…Examples of hybrid play -which have seen game designs enter into new collaborative arrangements with disciplines such as urban design (de Souza e Silva and Sutko 2009), augmented board games (Bergström and Björk 2014), playground design (Poppe et al 2014), and many more -go beyond the contexts of commercial product design, and suggest a need to account for the way that technologies, spaces, games and players enter into re-fashioned or unpredictable relations and thereby challenge designed uses and values.…”

Section: Hybrid Dimensions: Synchrony and Dependencementioning

confidence: 99%

Postdigital Interfaces and the Aesthetics of Recruitment

Jayemanne

Nansen²,

Apperley³

2016

ToDIGRA

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This paper analyses reconfigurations of play in emergent digital materialities of game design. It extends recent work examining dimensions of hybridity in playful products by turning attention to interfaces, practicesand spaces, rather than devices. We argue that the concept of hybrid playrelies on predefining clear and distinct digital or material entities that then enter into hybrid situations. Drawing on concepts of the ‘interface’ and ‘postdigital’, we argue the distribution of computing devices creates difficulties for such presuppositions. Instead, we propose thinking these situations through an ‘aesthetic of recruitment’ that is able to accommodate the intensive entanglements and inherent openness of both the social and technical in postdigital play.

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Section: Hybrid Dimensions: Synchrony and Dependencementioning

confidence: 99%

Postdigital Interfaces and the Aesthetics of Recruitment

Jayemanne

Nansen²,

Apperley³

2016

ToDIGRA

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“…Lastly, physical challenge refers to how much exertion the game requires. Two of the main goals of interactive playgrounds are providing engaging, fun experiences and encouraging physical activity [16]. Therefore, these four features are specially important in the design of bodycentric interactive installations since they link engagement and immersion to a player's movement and, by consequence, to their physical activity.…”

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Hang in There: A Novel Body-Centric Interactive Playground

Delden

Moreno

Ramos

et al. 2014

Innovative and Creative Developments in Multimodal Interaction Systems

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Abstract.We introduce and evaluate a first version of a novel bodycentric playground that aims at increasing bodily exertion and immersion. The concept centers around the player, who is suspended from the ceiling using a rope and climbing harness and stands on a tilted platform. This caused players to assume a body posture that elicits the feeling of flying, which was further enhanced by the flying game that they played. We discuss the choices made in the type of body movements, and how these relate to different aspects such as movement mimicry and exertion. We performed a user study, in which the hanging position was compared to a setting where players stood on the ground. We found no significant differences in the amount of movement and perceived engagement between the two conditions. However, there was a tendency of favoring the hanging position. Moreover, we observed that the placement of game elements affected the movement patterns.

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“…Yet, studies have shown that children spend less time outdoors than previous generations [5]. While the impact of this on children's physical activity has received much attention [17], its impact on imaginary play may be even more severe [5,16].…”

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“…One reason for the decline in outdoor play is the increased access to screen-based activity in the form of TV, Internet and computer games [16,20]. But in addition, the urban landscape is increasingly designed as if children would only play in designated playgrounds, designed to offer safety and seclusion.…”

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Designing Children's Digital-Physical Play in Natural Outdoors Settings

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Paget

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Children's outdoor play is fluent and fluctuating, shaped by environmental features and conditions. The article reports on a project where interaction designers and landscape architects work together to develop solutions for integrating interactive play in outdoor environments. Here we report on a schoolyard trial, where interactive play technology was installed as an integral part of the schoolyard environment, and discuss the interplay between technology and the environment. We highlight in particular how the interactive technology contributed to the versatility of play activities, but also how the nature setting and the availability of natural materials contributed to the play activities around the interactive artefacts.

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Interactive Playgrounds for Children

Cited by 20 publications

References 36 publications

Postdigital Interfaces and the Aesthetics of Recruitment

Postdigital Interfaces and the Aesthetics of Recruitment

Hang in There: A Novel Body-Centric Interactive Playground

Designing Children's Digital-Physical Play in Natural Outdoors Settings

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