Studying medium effects on children's creative processes

Yee, Sharon Lynn Chu Yew; Quek, Francis; Xiao, Lin

doi:10.1145/2069618.2069622

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“…In the findings, published at the Creativity and Cognition conference 2010 [14], children were observed to go through different stages when creating stories using animation as opposed to the digital storybook medium, and to adopt different strategies. Animation was seen to have a large positive impact on the children's motivation and enthusiasm to engage in the creative activity.…”

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confidence: 99%

Nurturing children's creative practice through micro-enactments

Chu

2013

CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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At the age of eight to nine when social awareness and self-evaluation increase, a child sees a precipitous drop in creative activity. This phenomenon known as the 'Fourth-Grade Slump' has been shown across cultures. We posit that it is ultimately a motivational problem. This dissertation research explores the potential that technology-based media may have to motivate a child to engage in creative activity throughout the Slump. It investigates affordances of technology for creation in the domain of storytelling, and proposes an approach based on the concept of micro-enactments.

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Nurturing children's creative practice through micro-enactments

Chu

2013

CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Among the relevant ones that address physicality, embodiment and imagination in some way, Chu, Quek & Lin [19] studied the process of 9-year old children creating stories using an animation authoring software and found that the children naturally tend to use body enactments to create and illustrate their ideas to each other. Antle, Droumeva & Ha [20] compared 7 to 10 year-old children solving jigsaw puzzles in three conditions: a traditional cardboard puzzle, a mouse-based graphical user interface (GUI) puzzle and a tangible user interface (TUI) tabletop puzzle.…”

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“…In our study, we devised a measure for the child that we call broader imagination. A similar measure was used in Chu, Quek & Lin [19]. We define 'broader imagination' as including any form of extension and association made beyond (visual, auditory, tangible, etc.)…”

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The effects of physicality on the child's imagination

Chu

Quek

Gusukuma

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Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity &Amp; Cognition

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This paper investigates the effects of physical objects as support for imagination in the context of enactive storytelling. More specifically, we target nine-year-old children because of their general disengagement from creative activity, a phenomenon known as the Fourth-grade Slump that arises from a demotivational spiral brought on by social awareness. We study how enactment using physical objects may allow the child to better engage in story imagination. Our study compares the richness of the imagination under three main enactment conditions with objects that have varying degrees of fidelity to referent objects: Cultural objects (physical visual resemblance); Physical objects (similar physical affordances); Arbitrary objects (minimal physical and visual affordances). We employ a mixed-methods analysis to gauge the child's level of broader imagination from three data sources: Enactment videos, drawings and interviews with the children. We found that the object types significantly differ in their support of the imagination, with the object of highest specificity being most effective. Our findings can inform the design of embodied creativitysupport systems for children.

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