Designing IoT Resources to Support Outdoor Play for Children

Dylan, Thomas, Wood, Gavin, Durrant, Abigail, Vines, John, Torres, Pablo E., Ulrich, Philip, Cukurova, Mutlu, Carr, Amanda, Cerci, Sena and Lawson, Shaun (2020) Designing IoT Resources to Support Outdoor Play for Children. In: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’20): April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, New York, NY. ISBN 9781450367080

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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.

Item Type: Book Section
Subjects: G400 Computer Science
W200 Design studies
Department: Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Design
Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 20 Jan 2020 16:38
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 12:35
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41953

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