Engaging Pre-teens in Ideating and Programming Smart Objects Through Play

Matera, Maristella; Melonio, Alessandra; Rizvi, Mehdi; Roumelioti, Eftychia

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-52538-5_4

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“…Results of 2019 actions were reported separately in other publications, however mainly in relation to quantitative data processing (Gennari, Matera, Melonio, Rizvi, & Roumelioti, 2020a, 2020bMelonio et al, 2020;. This paper instead considers qualitative data related to 2019 actions, and findings are presented in relation to the evolution of the toolkit for the first time.…”

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The evolution of a toolkit for smart-thing design with children through action research

Matera

Melonio

Rizvi

et al. 2022

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

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The evolution of a toolkit for smart-thing design with children through action research

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Melonio

Rizvi

et al. 2022

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

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“…The SNaP toolkit comes into two versions, a physical one (see Figure 5) and a digital one (see left of Figure 6). They have both been used in workshops with children, in presence and at-a-distance described in [48][49][50][51] and in [52,53] respectively. The SNaP toolkit supports children or teens in the entire design workflow, by, firstly, enabling them to familiarise with smart-object components (e.g., sensors, actuators) and, secondly, it guides them in ideating novel smart objects by conceptualising them on boards.…”

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Children’s Participation in the Design of Smart Solutions: A Literature Review

Pellegrino

Roumelioti

D’Angelo³

2022

Smart Cities

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Smart solutions are widespread and diversified. Smart cities and smart objects are example of smart solutions. Their design usually follows certain patterns so that they can detect events and react accordingly. As future citizens, children are expected to interact with them in their daily lives. It is thus crucial to provide children with the tools for understanding, creating, and possibly programming them—in short, designing them. This paper presents a literature review of workshops involving children in designing smart solutions. The review coded a total of 25 papers that met the inclusion criteria. The discussion draws a research agenda using the workshops organized by the authors, the Roobopoli workshops for smart cities and the SNaP workshops for smart objects, as reference. Whereas smart cities and smart objects are usually addressed separately, this paper binds and compares them in order to investigate what, in different settings, enables children to be part of the design of smart solutions.

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“…Data concerning engagement were also collected during and right after the workshop, showing that children engaged actively in the workshop. They are outside the scope of this paper, which focuses on children's reflections and awareness in design, and are reported in details in [12]. However, since engagement is also a relevant dimension in design with children, the main results concerning engagement are briefly reported in the following.…”

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Reflection and awareness in the design process: children ideating, programming and prototyping smart objects

Matera

Melonio

Rizvi

et al. 2020

Multimed Tools Appl

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Design of new technology with children has been widely investigated, and lately several workshops have been organised with children for designing novel IoT or smart objects, e.g., for smart cities or parks. Gradually, the research focus has shifted, from an analysis of the technology itself, which children help create, towards an analysis of children's possible gains in design workshops. However, in spite of several recent efforts, it is still unclear what happens when children participate in diverse parts of a design process, ranging from ideation to prototyping. This paper investigates it, focussing on children's gains in relation to their knowledge of design. A structured design workshop can help obtain such gains and analyse their achievements. Therefore this paper presents a structured design workshop with 27 children, aged from 11 to 14 years old, ideating, programming and prototyping smart objects for their town park. The workshops was structured and centred around a board-game with cards, so as to playfully make children reflect about design, and promote their awareness of what they were doing. Data were gathered in relation to children's reflections from different perspectives, during the workshop, and in relation to their awareness of design, after the workshop. The analysis of the gathered data suggests that the workshop positively affected children's reflections on design and awareness of design, giving indications for future work concerning critical design with children.The order of authors is alphabetical. All authors gave major contributions to the research. In particular, Gennari supervised the overall research design, and acted as moderator. Matera supervised the data processing, and acted as moderator. Melonio supervised the game design, and acted as moderator. Roumelioti developed the game design, and acted as technical facilitator. Rizvi managed the electronics and developed programming snippets for the programming and prototyping part, and acted as technical facilitator. All authors contributed to the paper writing, which was coordinated by Rosella Gennari.

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Engaging Pre-teens in Ideating and Programming Smart Objects Through Play

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

The evolution of a toolkit for smart-thing design with children through action research

The evolution of a toolkit for smart-thing design with children through action research

Children’s Participation in the Design of Smart Solutions: A Literature Review

Reflection and awareness in the design process: children ideating, programming and prototyping smart objects

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