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ACMIDC
2009
13 years 11 months ago
Petimo: safe social networking robot for children
"Petimo" is an interactive robotic toy designed to protect children from potential risks in social networks and the virtual world and helps them to make a safely connect...
Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Cha...
ACMIDC
2009
13 years 11 months ago
Drama prototyping for the design of urban interactive systems for children
In this paper, we present Wi-swing, a case study approach in designing a networked playground for children located in a public garden. The approach adopted in the case study is ba...
Andrea Alessandrini, Antonio Rizzo, Elisa Rubegni
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Mobile collaboration: collaboratively reading and creating children's stories on mobile devices
This paper discusses design iterations of Mobile Stories – a mobile technology that empowers children to collaboratively read and create stories. We present the design and discu...
Jerry Alan Fails, Allison Druin, Mona Leigh Guha
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Teaching social competence: in search of design patterns
COSPATIAL is a multi-disciplinary project that is using collaborative virtual reality and tabletop devices for training social competence within the theoretical framework of Cogni...
Massimo Zancanaro, Eynat Gal, Sarah Parsons, Patri...
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 11 months ago
TeddIR: tangible information retrieval for children
Despite several efforts to make search engines more childfriendly, children still have trouble using systems that require keyboard input. We present TeddIR: a system using a tangi...
Michel Jansen, Wim Bos, Paul E. van der Vet, Theo ...
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 11 months ago
BeeSim: leveraging wearable computers in participatory simulations with young children
New technologies have enabled students to become active participants in computational simulations of dynamic and complex systems (called Participatory Simulations), providing a &q...
Kylie A. Peppler, Joshua A. Danish, Benjamin Zaitl...
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 11 months ago
How the social structure of intercultural computer clubs fosters interactive storytelling
Stories play an important role in the collaborative project work of children and adults in intercultural computer clubs “come_IN”. They constitute the narrative framework for ...
Anne Weibert, Kai Schubert
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Paper-based multimedia interaction as learning tool for disabled children
The purpose of our research is to support cognitive, motor, and emotional development of severely disabled children in the school context. We designed and implemented a set of nov...
Franca Garzotto, Manuel Bordogna
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Interactive storytelling for children
Since the nineties, storytelling has received increasing attention in the HCI, IDC, and AI communities, exploring the potential of interactivity and multimedia as a means to promo...
Franca Garzotto, Paolo Paolini, Amalia Sabiescu