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ACMIDC
2010
13 years 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Gifts for intertwining with modern nature
Inspired by Froebel’s Gifts for kindergarten, we propose a new category of gifts for modern preschools. Modern Nature Gifts are meta-manipulatives, inviting deeper exploration o...
Jay S. Silver, Eric Rosenbaum
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Investigating the impact of design processes on children
While there is a wealth of information about children’s technology and the design processes used to create it, there is a dearth of information regarding how the children who pa...
Mona Leigh Guha, Allison Druin, Jerry Alan Fails
ACMIDC
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Design of an instrument for the evaluation of communication technologies with children
In designing communication technology for children, it is important to understand the affective benefits and costs introduced by a particular medium. We present an Affective Benef...
Svetlana Yarosh, Panos Markopoulos