Title
Designing IoT Resources to Support Outdoor Play for Children
Abstract
We describe a Research-through-Design (RtD) project that explores the Internet of Things (IoT) as a resource for children's free play outdoors. Based on initial insights from a design ethnography, we developed four RtD prototypes for social play in different scenarios of use outdoors, including congregating on a street or in a park to play physical games with IoT. We observed these prototypes in use by children in their free play in two community settings, and report on the qualitative analysis of our fieldwork. Our findings highlight the designs' material qualities that encouraged social and physical play under certain conditions, suggesting social affordances that are central to the success of IoT designs for free play outdoors. We provide directions for future research that addresses the challenges faced when deploying IoT with children, contributing new considerations for interaction design with children in outdoor settings and free play contexts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3313831.3376302
CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Honolulu HI USA April, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-6708-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Dylan101.69
gavin wood218218.27
Abigail Durrant325024.31
John Vines460955.33
Pablo E. Torres501.01
Philip Ulrich601.01
Mutlu Cukurova701.01
Amanda Carr81137.54
Sena Çerçi900.34
Shaun Lawson1062257.85