Smart toys and children’s understanding of personal data

Manches, Andrew; Plowman, Lydia

doi:10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100333

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“…line graphs) to handle information in an effective, efficient, and confident manner" [7]. This research has taken a variety of forms primarily focused on designing creative ways to improve children's visual literacy [44]. Researchers have tried various approaches from running workshops with tangible objects to creating games [34,58].…”

Section: Children's Graphical Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Juvenile Graphical Perception: A Comparison between Children and Adults

Panavas¹

2022

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Data visualization is pervasive in the lives of children as they en-counter graphs and charts in early education and online media.In spite of this prevalence, our guidelines and understanding ofhow children perceive graphs stem primarily from studies con-ducted with adults. Previous psychology and education researchindicates that children’s cognitive abilities are different from adults.Therefore, we conducted a classic graphical perception study on apopulation of children aged 8–12 enrolled in the Ivy After SchoolProgram in Boston, MA and adult computer science students en-rolled in Northeastern University to determine how accuratelyparticipants judge differences in particular graphical encodings. We record the accuracy of participants’ answers for five encodingsmost commonly used with quantitative data. The results of ourcontrolled experiment show that children have remarkably similargraphical perception to adults, but are consistently less accurateat interpreting the visual encodings. We found similar effective-ness rankings, relative differences in error between the differentencodings, and patterns of bias across encoding types. Based on ourfindings, we provide design guidelines and recommendations forcreating visualizations for children. This paper and all supplementalmaterials are available at https://osf.io/ygrdv.

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Section: Children's Graphical Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%