Title
Designing for Children's Outdoor Play.
Abstract
Children's outdoor play is fluent and fluctuating, shaped by environmental features and conditions. The article reports on a project where interaction designers and landscape architects work together to fuse their knowledge into working solutions for integrating interactive play in outdoor environments. We report on a schoolyard trial, where interactive play technology was installed as an integral part of a schoolyard environment, and discuss the interplay between technology and the environment that was partly natural forest and partly constructed playground. We highlight in particular the importance of the adaptability of the natural environment, how the combination of interactive technology and natural environment can contribute to the versatility of play activities, and how the interactive technology can both be useful for presenting invitations to play in such adaptable places, and enhance the adaptability for play in otherwise impoverished places.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2901790.2901875
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
outdoor play, playscape, interactive play technology, landscape architecture
Adaptability,Landscape architecture,Human–computer interaction,Engineering,Multimedia,Interactive technology
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.42
12
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jon Back1225.64
Caspar Heeffer250.42
Susan Paget350.76
Andreas Rau461.13
Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander5122.95
Annika Waern630637.62