@inproceedings{01ccee96136548c3b27141751d3655e2,
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.",
keywords = "children, digital playing out, free play, internet of things, outdoor play, pervasive play",
author = "Thomas Dylan and Gavin Wood and Abigail Durrant and John Vines and Torres, {Pablo E.} and Philip Ulrich and Mutlu Cukurova and Amanda Carr and Sena Cerci and Shaun Lawson",
note = "We thank our research participants for their time and contributions and both community partners for their extensive support. This research is funded by the EPSRC funded Playing Out with IoT project (EP/P025544/2).",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1145/3313831.3376302",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
publisher = "ACM",
booktitle = "CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
}