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Supporting and understanding autistic children’s non-verbal interactions through OSMoSIS, a motion-based sonic system

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100726

Grazia Ragone , Judith Good , Kate Howland

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Scaffolding Children's critical reflection on intelligent technologies: Opportunities from speculative fiction 为儿童对智能技术的批判性思考搭建支架：来自推理小说的机遇

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100727

Laura Malinverni , Marie-Monique Schaper , Elisa Rubegni , Mariana Aki Tamashiro

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Inside or between devices: The internet in the mind of primary school children

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100724

Luca Botturi , Loredana Addimando

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Let us make robots “Think in child!”: How children conceptualize fairness, inclusion, and privacy with social robots

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100706

Leigh Levinson , Vicky Charisi , Chris Zotos , Randy Gomez , Selma Šabanović

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The feasibility of an immersive interactive virtual reality task for children and adolescents.

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100722

Nina Krupljanin, Lenneke R.A. Alink, Anja van der Voort, Maarten R. Struijk Wilbrink, Catharina E. Bergwerff

{"title":"The feasibility of an immersive interactive virtual reality task for children and adolescents.","authors":"Nina Krupljanin, Lenneke R.A. Alink, Anja van der Voort, Maarten R. Struijk Wilbrink, Catharina E. Bergwerff","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100722","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100722","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The interest in using immersive Virtual Reality (hereafter referred to as VR) for clinical interventions in (mental) health care settings has been growing for adults, as well as adolescents and children. However, VR systems and evidence-based VR-software have not specifically been built for minors. To develop a potentially effective clinical VR intervention for children and adolescents, it is crucial to assess the motivation for and the feasibility of the VR software and the respective VR system first. This study assessed these aspects with regard to a self-developed interactive VR task that serves as a base for a clinical VR intervention in children and adolescents, using a Meta Quest 2 system. Feasibility was measured by assessing tolerability, usability, satisfaction, presence, and perceived realism. The relations between motivation and the different feasibility aspects were explored, and the associations between age, frequency of digital media use, and sex on the one hand and motivation and the five aspects of feasibility on the other were tested. A pre- and post-test design was implemented, using self-report questionnaires. 85 children aged 8–17 years participated (<em>M</em><sub><em>age</em></sub> = 10.55 years, <em>SD</em><sub><em>age</em></sub> = 2.06 years), of which 31 (36%) were girls and 54 (64%) were boys. The VR task was found to be highly motivating and overall feasible for this age group, whereby the motivation and the feasibility did not vary based on age, frequency of digital media use, or sex. The results of this study indicate that this task could be a feasible base for a VR mental health intervention for children and adolescents aged 8–17 years using a Meta Quest 2 system, regardless of their sex or frequency of digital media use.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100722"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143139525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Game over? Investigating students’ working memory, situational interest, and behavioral patterns as predictors of dropout in an educational game

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100721

Michaela Arztmann , Jessica Lizeth Domínguez Alfaro , Lisette Hornstra , Jacqueline Wong , Johan Jeuring , Liesbeth Kester

{"title":"Game over? Investigating students’ working memory, situational interest, and behavioral patterns as predictors of dropout in an educational game","authors":"Michaela Arztmann , Jessica Lizeth Domínguez Alfaro , Lisette Hornstra , Jacqueline Wong , Johan Jeuring , Liesbeth Kester","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100721","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100721","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Educational games are designed to increase students' motivation and persistence. Nevertheless, student dropout is a very common issue that many game interventions in education face, which can hamper students' learning opportunities. Dropout can be manifested in different ways for different reasons, for instance quitting due to lack of interest or failing due to lack of abilities to succeed in the game. Thus far, little is known about the underlying factors that lead to student dropout. The present paper (<em>N</em> = 272 early secondary school students) investigates different types of dropout and whether students' working memory capacity and situational interest are predictive of the likelihood of dropping out during an educational game using augmented reality (AR). Moreover, log data were used to explore differences in students' in-game behavior (i.e., number, type, and patterns of mistakes) while playing the game. The results indicate that 16.9% of the students dropped out during the game, either because they quit or because they failed to reach the last level. Working memory capacity and situational interest were not predictive of students' dropout. However, process maps of students’ in-game behavior showed that dropout students differed in the number of mistakes they made and also followed a different behavioral pattern than non-dropout students. In all, this study contributes to the knowledge base by revealing different types of dropout students who showed distinct behavioral patterns. More insights into these patterns could help to identify students at-risk of dropping out early on and to develop targeted interventions to prevent dropout.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"43 ","pages":"Article 100721"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143139524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Culturing computation: A multi-case study on students as ethnocomputing researchers during a virtual after-school program

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2024-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100719

Michael Lachney, Madison C. Allen Kuyenga, Christa Robinson

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Evaluating the usability of a conversational agent to enhance parent-child shared reading interactions

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2024-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100720

Kathryn A. Leech , Grace Lin , Sarah Pedonti , Ilana Schoenfeld , Cigdem Uz Bilgin

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More than words: Conceptualizing narrative computational thinking based on a multicase study

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100704

Michael Schlauch , Cristina Sylla , Maitê Gil

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Exploring parent self-efficacy in children's digital device use: Understanding shame and self-stigma through a mixed-methods approach

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100718

Stephanie C. Milford , Lynette Vernon , Joseph J. Scott , Nicola F. Johnson

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