Designing IoT Resources to Support Outdoor Play for Children

Thomas Dylan; Gavin Wood; Abigail Durrant; John Vines; Pablo E. Torres; Philip Ulrich; Mutlu Cukurova; Amanda  Carr; Sena Cerci; Shaun Lawson

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376302

Designing IoT Resources to Support Outdoor Play for Children

Thomas Dylan, Gavin Wood, Abigail Durrant, John Vines, Pablo E. Torres, Philip Ulrich, Mutlu Cukurova, Amanda Carr, Sena Cerci, Shaun Lawson

Computer and Information Sciences Department

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450367080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376302
Publication status	Published - 21 Apr 2020

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Name	Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM

Keywords

children
digital playing out
free play
internet of things
outdoor play
pervasive play

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Playing Out with IoT
Vines, J.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
28/11/17 → 27/07/19
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Dylan, T., Wood, G., Durrant, A., Vines, J., Torres, P. E., Ulrich, P., Cukurova, M., Carr, A., Cerci, S., & Lawson, S. (2020). Designing IoT Resources to Support Outdoor Play for Children. In CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 3376302 (Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376302

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Dylan, T, Wood, G, Durrant, A, Vines, J, Torres, PE, Ulrich, P, Cukurova, M, Carr, A, Cerci, S & Lawson, S 2020, Designing IoT Resources to Support Outdoor Play for Children. in CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3376302, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376302

Designing IoT Resources to Support Outdoor Play for Children. / Dylan, Thomas; Wood, Gavin; Durrant, Abigail et al.
CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2020. 3376302 (Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems).

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