The Magic Box and Collage: Responding to the challenge of distributed intergenerational play

Vetere, Frank; Davis, Hilary; Gibbs, Martin; Howard, Steve

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2008.09.004

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“…The research presented in this paper is based on the deployment of a system integrating two existing components developed in previous research projects (Vetere et al, 2009;Vutborg et al, 2010). Before the prototype system was deployed, interviews were conducted with families to gain an understanding of how they maintain contact across time zones and challenges faced during separation.…”

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“…Each of these components mediates communication between grandparents and grandchildren distributed in space in novel ways. Both components contain interaction forms that significantly differ from telephone conversations and webcam sessions and both components have been shown to make grandparents and grandchildren who live apart feel closer to each other (Vetere et al, 2009;Vutborg et al, 2010). Previous studies were conducted with grandparents and grandchildren who lived in the same time zone.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The system used in this study combines the "Collage" (Vetere et al, 2009) component and the "Storytelling" (Vutborg et al, 2010) component. Both were chosen for this study as they explore different types of contact between grandparents and grandchildren.…”

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“…The Collage component is built for "mediating intergenerational play" (Vetere et al, 2009) and is intended to operate continuously in the household. Personal photos appear from the top and cascade down the screen simultaneously in both households, as shown in figure 2.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Synchronous interaction is also possible with Collage. When both households have their computer turned on, they can watch the other household interact with the system, leading to playful instances, for example, "fight over control" of photos between distant family members (Vetere et al, 2009). …”

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confidence: 99%

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Supporting young children's communication with adult relatives across time zones

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Regular contact between children and their adult relatives can be a problem if they live in different time zones. In this situation, finding an agreed time to contact each other can be both confusing and complicated. This paper presents a study of the effect of time zone differences on communication between grandparents and grandchildren living in different time zones. We deployed a system between time zone distributed families to study this effect and analysed its use based on four parameters of time and events based theory: rigid sequential structures (that some events cannot occur before others), fixed durations (that most events always last the same time), standard temporal locations (that events have a standard time when they occur during the day) and uniform rates of recurrence (that some events always reoccur at a uniform rate). Our findings highlight the importance of: the need to consider the parents' role in facilitating contact and making the technology easy to use by children independently; the advantage of concurrent synchronous and asynchronous interaction forms; and the need to respect people's private time. These findings can inform the design of technology for supporting young children's communications with adult relatives across time zones.

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Setting Up and Conducting the Co-design of an Intergenerational Digital Game: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance

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In our ageing society, health and social problems of older people are on the rise. A possible way to deal with these issues is to ensure older people remain actively engaged in society by stimulating social interaction with other generations, such as (grand) children. Playing intergenerational digital games could be a way to achieve this kind of social interaction. The present state-ofthe-art literature review aims to provide insight into the factors to take into consideration for setting up and conducting the co-design (involving younger and older adults interacting both with one another and with game designers) for an intergenerational digital game. Finally, this paper offers recommendations for the co-design of such games.

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The Magic Box and Collage: Responding to the challenge of distributed intergenerational play

Cited by 117 publications

References 29 publications

Supporting young children's communication with adult relatives across time zones

Supporting young children's communication with adult relatives across time zones

Connecting Grandparents and Grandchildren

Setting Up and Conducting the Co-design of an Intergenerational Digital Game: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review

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