A preliminary study of Hello Barbie in Brazil and Argentina

Fantinato, Marcelo; Hung, Patrick C. K.; Jiang, Ying; Roa, Jorge; Villarreal, Pablo David; Melaisi, Mohammed; Amâncio, Fernanda

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2018.03.006

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“…Based on the literature reviewed (Brito et al, 2018;Cingel & Krcmar, 2013;de Albuquerque & Kelner, 2019;Fantinato et al, 2018;Genc, 2014;Healey & Mendelsohn, 2019;McReynolds et al, 2017;Peter et al, 2019;Rideout & Saphir, 2013;Wood et al, 2016) we designed a survey, tapping parental observations and attitudes regarding their infants' and toddlers' use of digital technology. It includes close-ended questions and statements referring to: a) General information on the child (sex, age, age in relation to other children in the family, type of living environment) and parent (age, relationship to the child).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They run on batteries, electricity or solar power, and some can be connected to the internet. This group currently includes so-called smart toys, connected toys, toys that listen and toys for learning the basics of computer programming (Brito et al, 2018;de Albuquerque & Kelner, 2019;Fantinato et al, 2018;McReynolds et al, 2017;Peter et al, 2019). Connected toys collect, generate, deliver and communicate data.…”

Section: The Importance Of Play For Children's Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digital Devices in Early Childhood Play: Digital Technology in the First Two Years of Slovene Toddlers’ Lives

Rosanda¹,

Kavčič²,

Starčič³

2022

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This article offers a first insight into the digital environment of Slovenian toddlers. We report on the use of digital technology and toys allowed by parents in their children’s home environment. The study is based on the results of an online questionnaire completed by parents of 26 Slovenian children up to 2 years of age (M = 17.8 months; SD = 5.6). On average, 9% of all children’s toys are digital toys and they spend 10% of their play time playing with digital toys. Among the most commonly, but still only occasionally, used digital toys or technology are smartphones and tablets. Compared to other types of digital technology, parents believed that screen-based digital toys in particular supported their child’s skills development. Ultimately, parents do not strongly associate digital technologies with positive developmental and educational effects, but rather they believe that digital technology provides entertainment, enables information-seeking and keeps children busy. Nevertheless they allow, or will allow, the child to use digital technology mainly because they believe it enables learning. Further research, if needed, will be carried out to look closely at the children’s use of digital technology and its effects on young children’s development.

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Section: The Importance Of Play For Children's Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Devices in Early Childhood Play: Digital Technology in the First Two Years of Slovene Toddlers’ Lives

Rosanda¹,

Kavčič²,

Starčič³

2022

E&SD

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“…For the last cluster, Kumanyika (2008), Ebster et al (2009), Fantinato et al (2018, Liu et al (2013), Liu et al (2016), deal with topics such as food consumption patterns and family contextual influences on children's habits associated with brand consumption, as well as how the child's role in the family is influenced to demand certain products. On the other hand, they also study the association between personality, cognitive and social factors in the information disclosed by adolescents on social networks.…”

Section: Analysis Of Family Eating Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The contribution of these investigations impacts areas of knowledge related to the analysis of child behavior as an influencer in the demand for food products of fast food brands that use licensing of animated characters and toys as a marketing tool to persuade children (Ebster et al, 2009;McAlister & Bettina Cornwell, 2012). Similarly, an off-line integrating physical toys could be linked with an online service system to increase the functionality of traditional interaction (Fantinato et al, 2018).…”

Section: Analysis Of Family Eating Behaviormentioning

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Análisis bibliométrico y revision temática de estudios en consumo infantil de 1974 a 2019

Granados-León

Sandoval-Escobar²,

Cortázar³

2022

Acta. Colomb. Psicol.

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El papel de los niños como consumidores ha generado un gran interés en el marketing social, especialmente en los aspectos relacionados con la alimentación; sin embargo, hay campos como la regulación de la publicidad, el comportamiento digital y las actitudes de los niños hacia los productos, que hasta ahora no están completamente estudiados. Para apoyar las futuras investigaciones de la comunidad científica del marketing social sobre este tema, el presente estudio bibliométrico tuvo como objetivo investigar y describir las líneas y áreas de investigación en psicología, comportamiento y marketing social, en relación con el consumo infantil, para responder a la siguiente pregunta de investigación: ¿Cuáles son las publicaciones, autores y tendencias más importantes en la investigación sobre el consumo infantil en los últimos 45 años? Para ello, se analizaron 1375 artículos de 703 revistas con los paquetes Bibliometrix (R Studio), utilizando una metodología exploratoria y descriptiva, analizando 2588 palabras clave de autor y 1265 palabras clave adicionales con 2597 autores en la base de datos Scopus. Los indicadores cienciométricos muestran la existencia de cinco grupos temáticos relacionados con el consumo infantil. Se concluye que la producción científica sobre el consumo de niños y niñas debe abordar cuestiones de protección y regulación orientadas a la responsabilidad social, especialmente en las comunicaciones integradas de marketing y publicidad de las marcas alimentarias, con mayor y especial cuidado en el entorno digital, debido a la actual inmersión de la población infantil mundial y su creciente autonomía en la elección de contenidos, productos y marcas digitales.

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“…Smart toys have provoked both relevant debates in the press media [Mathews 2017, Harris 2015] and scientific research, mainly related to children's data privacy such as the perceptions regarding smart toys and privacy in different countries [Fantinato et al 2017, Fantinato et al 2018, privacy risks that the context brought to light [Hung et al 2016a, Albuquerque et al 2019, proposed solutions to preserving privacy [Albuquerque et al 2020, Albuquerque et al 2022], the issues and consequences which involve related to their complexity, and the prospect of market growth. However, an equally relevant issue, but probably more difficult to define, understand and solve, has been overlooked or even neglected: the risks of the harmful behavior that smart toys built with inductive reasoning implemented in machine learning strategies could perform.…”

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An exploratory research about ethical issues on a smart toy: The Hello Barbie case study

Albuquerque

Fantinato

Peres

et al. 2022

Anais Do III Workshop Sobre as Implicações Da Computação Na Sociedade (WICS 2022)

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Smart toys are becoming increasingly present in children's lives, reinforcing the relevance of this market niche. Advances in user interfaces and artificial intelligence have been incorporated into smart toys to provide greater autonomy and inductive reasoning skills through machine learning. However, machine learning embedded in smart toys not only brings benefits but also potential problems of bias, possibly related to prejudice and discrimination. This work aims to explore Mattel's Hello Barbie smart toy in a case study, seeking to analyze its knowledge base and conversational functionality to identify possible ethical issues that could cause harm to children. The intention is to show unknown risks that can occur in the evolution's process of smart toys.

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A preliminary study of Hello Barbie in Brazil and Argentina

Cited by 16 publications

References 21 publications

Digital Devices in Early Childhood Play: Digital Technology in the First Two Years of Slovene Toddlers’ Lives

Digital Devices in Early Childhood Play: Digital Technology in the First Two Years of Slovene Toddlers’ Lives

Análisis bibliométrico y revision temática de estudios en consumo infantil de 1974 a 2019

An exploratory research about ethical issues on a smart toy: The Hello Barbie case study

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