Persuasive Toy Friends and Preschoolers: Playtesting IoToys

Heljakka, Katriina; Ihamäki, Pirita

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10898-4_8

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“…Hello Barbie, for example, refers to the child as her friend (i.e., To conclude, by using Vygotsky's [34] famous example of two sisters playing sisters as an analogue, the performative element of Hello Barbie is built on a theoretical premise that when playing with the doll, the child tries to be what she or he thinks a friend should be, as the child relates to the doll as her friend. This notion also highlights the existence of a social element in the form of simulated social interaction between two people [7,36,39]. Traditional Barbie contains no social element.…”

Section: Performative and Social Elementsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Smart toys that require building and programming [8] contain "rules in form." Also, toys that react and respond to children's initiatives in an adaptive but preprogrammed manner can be argued to contain a normative element, as they can be located under the label of persuasive technologies/toys [39].…”

Section: Normativementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social elements are understood as connoting a need for at least two players to use a toy functionally, while "social interaction" can be either cooperative or competitive [9]. Smart toys can provide simulated social interaction that resembles that between two agentic subjects, such as two people or a pet and its master [5,7,39].…”

Section: Socialmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Line 99: Now, first, before we get started, I want to make sure that I can hear you properly. So, to talk to me, you need to hold down the silver button on my belt the [39] refer to toys like Hello Barbie as persuasive toy friends: toys that engage the child into a two-way interaction, the rules of which are determined by the toy.…”

Section: Normative Elementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How connectivity affects otherwise traditional toys? A functional analysis of Hello Barbie

Mertala

2020

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

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The current smart toy research has not fully acknowledged the existing research on traditional toys. Instead, the focus has been on the digital layer of smart toys. This study contributes to bridging the gap between traditional and smart toy research by applying the analytical model known as the functional manipulation potential of toys (FMP) to identify if and how smart features such as connectivity affect otherwise traditional toys. Based on purposeful sampling of informant-rich cases, this study uses FMP to analytically compare the digitally enhanced Hello Barbie doll to a traditional Barbie. The data, analyzed using abductive methods, comprises the tangible dolls and the 8,000 lines of dialogue that Hello Barbie can speak. The results show that connectivity can notably change the FMP of an otherwise traditional toy. These changes took place in two forms: additions and amplifications. Additions mean that Hello Barbie contains functional elements a traditional Barbie does not. Amplifications refer to situations where already existing elements were augmented by the connectivity. Implications for future research are discussed.

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Section: Performative and Social Elementsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Normativementioning

confidence: 99%