Playing Close to Home

Back, Jon; Vidal, Laia Turmo; Wærn, Annika; Paget, Susan; Pysander, Eva-Lotta Sallnäs

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173730

Cited by 17 publications

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“…Our findings herein contextualize IoT resources and their design potential within a broad social context that is connected to the social dynamics of a community-inplace, and therefore contribute a more nuanced understanding of place and community to the growing corpus of HCI work on digital playing out e.g. [3,4,40], from a UK perspective.…”

Section: Pervasive Play For Place-making and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 80%

“…Most recently, researchers have started to explore how digital technologies may promote new forms of playful or recreational engagement with the outdoors [22], including the embedding of technologies in playground environments [4], the use of augmented reality to explore local environments [41] and experiences of pervasive gaming on social and physical activity [52]. Furthermore, the proliferation of sensor-based technologies and Internet of Things (IoT) devices has further created new opportunities to explore tangible play objects [8], and for play technologies that may extend more pervasively out from the home into the environment and neighbourhood beyond [4]. Arguably, this IoT design space for supporting pervasive play outdoors remains underexplored.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…HCI studies in this space have evaluated virtual versus tangible design artifacts for enriching outdoor play [52], highlighting how designing for outdoor play can engender new experiences distinct from play resulting from mobile phone games or game consoles, defining the value of 'Heads-Up-Games (HUGS)' for enhancing social interaction [53]. Others have demonstrated the value of pervasive, location-based design support for engaging with the places and spaces of the local neighbourhood [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Designing for Digital Playing Out

Wood

Dylan

Durrant

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We report on a design-led study in the UK that aimed to understand barriers to children (aged 5 to 14 years) 'playing out' in their neighbourhood and explore the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) for supporting children's free play that extends outdoors. The study forms a design ethnography, combining observational fieldwork with design prototyping and co-creative activities across four linked workshops, where we used BBC micro:bit devices to co-create new IoT designs with the participating children. Our collective account contributes new insights about the physical and interactive features of micro:bits that shaped play, gameplay, and social interaction in the workshops, illuminating an emerging design space for supporting 'digital playing out' that is grounded in empirical instances. We highlight opportunities for designing for digital playing out in ways that promote social negotiation, supports varying participation, allows for integrating cultural influences, and accounts for the weaving together of placemaking and play.

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Section: Pervasive Play For Place-making and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 80%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Designing for Digital Playing Out

Wood

Dylan

Durrant

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…These communities are learning about outdoor play by asking three key questions: What type of play can we support? Where can we support children at play [1,2]? And how can we support children in creating their own play [18]?…”

Section: Background Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…From the outset, our work has been about children playing outdoors in a local community setting. Back et al [2] is particularly relevant to our inquiry, the authors describe opportunities when designing for close-tohome play with digital technologies that help foster reoccurring play patterns within public spaces and invite players to get back together. These designs are realised further in [2], which looks at supporting play with technology in a school yard.…”

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Designing IoT Resources to Support Outdoor Play for Children

Dylan

Wood

Durrant

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We describe a Research-through-Design (RtD) project that explores the Internet of Things (IoT) as a resource for children's free-play outdoors. Based on initial insights from a design ethnography, we developed four RtD prototypes for social play in different scenarios of use outdoors, including congregating on a street or in a park to play physical games with IoT. We observed these prototypes in use by children in their free play in two community settings, and report on the qualitative analysis of our fieldwork. Findings highlight material qualities that encouraged social and physical play under certain conditions, suggesting social affordances that are central to the success of IoT designs for free-play outdoors. We provide directions for future research that addresses the challenges we faced when deploying IoT with children, contributing new considerations for interaction design with children in outdoor settings and free play contexts.

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Playful Introduction on “Making Smart Cities More Playable”

Nijholt

2019

Making Smart Cities More Playable

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Playing Close to Home

Cited by 17 publications

References 13 publications

Designing for Digital Playing Out

Designing for Digital Playing Out

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