Title
Feetup: a playful accessory to practice social skills through free-play experiences
Abstract
In this paper we describe the design process of an interactive accessory to play anywhere and anytime while encouraging free-play and practice social skills. We explain the design process, the resulting conceptual design of FeetUp and the preliminary user's evaluation. FeetUp is a playful accessory that takes advantage of children's interest to jump, or perform body stunts. These activities generally include lifting both feet, and FeetUp gives audiovisual feedback whenever this happens to encourage free-play related with jump activities. Preliminary user's experience shows how FeetUp, encourages freeplay.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-23765-2_3
INTERACT (3)
Keywords
Field
DocType
social skill,body stunt,audiovisual feedback,free-play experience,preliminary user,design process,conceptual design,jump activity,encouraging free-play
Social relation,Conceptual design,Wearable computer,Computer science,Social skills,Human–computer interaction,Engineering design process,Jump,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6948
0302-9743
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.67
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrea Rosales1375.01
Ernesto Arroyo2375.64
Josep Blat357071.54