Metadesigning interactive outdoor games for children

Lagerström, Susanne; Soute, Iris; Florack, Yves; Markopoulos, Panos

doi:10.1145/2593968.2610483

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“…Involving end-users in design to create systems that they need and like is not new [28]. In PD, future users are actively and directly engaged in the design process [39].…”

Section: Dynamics In Pd With Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging Children to Co-create Outdoor Play Activities for Place-making

Slingerland

Lukosch

Brazier

2020

Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1

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Outdoor play activities are one of the ways via which children can acquire a sense of place towards their neighbourhood. Engaging children in the design of these activities through Participatory Design (PD) holds promise. However, knowledge lacks on the characteristics of place-making processes for children, the changing dynamics in these processes, and how PD can contribute to this. This paper proposes a PD method, grounded in literature, to support children in co-creating outdoor play activities for place-making. The method is applied with 42 children in Rotterdam. Involvement of local partners, preparation meetings, and PD materials tailored to children's interests and skills are vital to enable children to design outdoor play activities that are meaningful to them.

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“…Involving end-users in design to create systems that they need and like is not new [28]. In PD, future users are actively and directly engaged in the design process [39].…”

Section: Dynamics In Pd With Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging Children to Co-create Outdoor Play Activities for Place-making

Slingerland

Lukosch

Brazier

2020

Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1

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“…He referred to Arduino's potential to support depunctualization by enabling people to understand the building block of electronics and to experiment directly with the inner working of technology. Previous findings have also shown that novice Arduino users may still need to engage in basic learning about coding and engineering [Lagerström et al, 2014], particularly if they wish to develop complex technologies.…”

Section: End User Development For Open Hardware 21mentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring DIY Practices of Complex Home Technologies

Sas

Neustaedter

2017

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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We are surrounded by increasingly complex networks of smart objects, yet our understanding and attachment to them is rather limited. One way to support stronger end users' engagement with such complex technologies is by involving them in the design process and, with the advent of Arduino prototyping platform, even in their making. While DIY practice offers the potential for stronger user engagement with physical artifacts, we know little about end users' DIY practice of making complex electronic technologies and their potential to ensure engagement with such devices. In this paper, we report on interviews with 18 participants from two green communities who built and used an open source DIY energy monitor, with the aim to explore the end users DIY practices of making such complex electronic devices. Findings indicate four key qualities of DIY monitors: transparent modularity, open-endedness, heirloom and disruptiveness, and how they contribute to more meaningful engagement with the DIY monitors, elevating them from the status of unremarkable objects to that of things. We conclude with three implications for design for supporting end user development of complex electronic DIY: designing transparent open hardware technologies, standardizing communication protocols for the current and future DIY of IoT; and deliberately calling for personal investment and labor in the assembling of DIY kits.

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“…Yet, children today are spending less time in nature than previous generations, due to a variety of factors, such as fewer opportunities to access outdoor spaces in urban areas, parental safety concerns, busy schedules, lack of interest, and increased screen time [35,40,54,67,68,70]. A growing body of research demonstrates how mobile technologies can actually support children's positive, fun experiences outdoors, increase children's time outdoors, and support their engagement with and learning about nature [2,25,28,31,32,38,65,66].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%