Maria J. Anderson-Coto , Julie Salazar , John Louis-Strakes Lopez , R. Mishael Sedas , Fabio Campos , Andres S. Bustamante , June Ahn
{"title":"Towards culturally sustaining design: Centering community’s voices for learning through Participatory Design","authors":"Maria J. Anderson-Coto , Julie Salazar , John Louis-Strakes Lopez , R. Mishael Sedas , Fabio Campos , Andres S. Bustamante , June Ahn","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100621","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100621","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Embedding cultural ways of knowing and being of non-dominant communities into learning tools and environments often falls short of authentically representing the people they are meant to serve. Designers have used principles and methods of Participatory Design (PD) to work alongside minoritized communities due to its roots in democratic participation. However, following PD methods may fall short when infusing the community’s culture and values in the design in a way that is responsive to the community’s preferences, intentions and aspirations. In the field of education, researchers and practitioners have designed teaching and learning<span> tools and environments by leveraging the cultural wealth and ways of knowing of minoritized learners through an asset-based perspective, as exemplified by Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP). In this paper we present a case study for the development of a mobile application to extend physical playful learning spaces, designed with local low-income Latine families to foster fun family learning. We highlight how our design practices helped us center youth voices and community ways of knowing and being, particularly in the stages of ideation, concept, testing, and prototyping. Our case study reflects how we foregrounded cultural values and practices into our educational mobile application. Through these practices, we present concrete examples and initial building blocks for future work towards building a Culturally Sustaining Design Framework.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 100621"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135614155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoyi Tian , Amit Kumar , Carly E Solomon , Kaceja D Calder , Gloria Ashiya Katuka , Yukyeong Song , Mehmet Celepkolu , Lydia Pezzullo , Joanne Barrett , Kristy Elizabeth Boyer , Maya Israel
{"title":"AMBY: A development environment for youth to create conversational agents","authors":"Xiaoyi Tian , Amit Kumar , Carly E Solomon , Kaceja D Calder , Gloria Ashiya Katuka , Yukyeong Song , Mehmet Celepkolu , Lydia Pezzullo , Joanne Barrett , Kristy Elizabeth Boyer , Maya Israel","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100618","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Conversational AIs such as Alexa and ChatGPT are increasingly ubiquitous in young people’s lives, but these young users are often not afforded the opportunity to learn about the inner workings of these technologies. One of the most powerful ways to foster this learning is to empower youth to create AI that is personally and socially meaningful to them. We have built a novel development environment, AMBY–“AI Made By You”–for youth to create conversational agents. AMBY was iteratively designed with and for youth aged 12–13 through contextual inquiry and usability studies. AMBY is designed to foster AI learning with features that enable users to generate training datasets and visualize conversational flow. We report on results from a two-week summer camp deployment, and contribute design implications for conversational AI authoring tools that empower AI learning for youth.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100618"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92045417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kellie Vella , Madeleine Dobson , Shannon Rodgers , Chimi Om , Filip Bircanin , Tshering Dema , Jonathan Pillai , Karen Murcia , Margot Brereton
{"title":"Wired, wild, wonderful: A scoping review of early childhood nature connections fostered by digital technologies","authors":"Kellie Vella , Madeleine Dobson , Shannon Rodgers , Chimi Om , Filip Bircanin , Tshering Dema , Jonathan Pillai , Karen Murcia , Margot Brereton","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100619","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nature connections in early childhood are being lost due to increasingly urban and managed lives. Yet, emerging research is signalling the usefulness of digital technologies in reconnecting children with the natural world. This review scopes the last ten years of research reporting child-nature-technology interactions to identify: (1) methods, (2) approaches to children's agency in research and design, (3) technologies used and the experiences they produced. After screening, a search of seven databases produced 24 papers that were analysed across these three dimensions. We describe the current research and make recommendations including more granular reporting of participation, increased engagement with theory and nature connection frameworks, and consideration of methods that encourage children's agency at earlier stages in design work. We also suggest novel directions when designing for nature experiences that encourage personal meaning-making, relationality, and build child competencies for a rapidly changing world.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100619"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212868923000569/pdfft?md5=0f5806918ec95d43b3ab60cb60e52c65&pid=1-s2.0-S2212868923000569-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92045416","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}
Rachel Charlotte Smith, Marie-Monique Schaper, Mariana Aki Tamashiro, Maarten Van Mechelen, Marianne Graves Petersen, Ole Sejer Iversen
{"title":"A research agenda for computational empowerment for emerging technology education","authors":"Rachel Charlotte Smith, Marie-Monique Schaper, Mariana Aki Tamashiro, Maarten Van Mechelen, Marianne Graves Petersen, Ole Sejer Iversen","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100616","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article proposes a research agenda for computational empowerment for emerging technologies in the field of child–computer interaction (CCI) – in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), the internet of things (IoT), augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR). This research agenda includes three levels of operation for future studies: (1) <em>participatory practice</em>, capable of engaging teachers and students in co-developing and designing approaches for teaching and learning emerging technologies, (2) <em>educational principles</em> for integrating technological and societal aspects of emerging technologies, and (3) <em>digital tools</em> for engaging students in construction of and critical reflection on emerging technologies. The research agenda was developed from longitudinal studies of the respective emerging technologies in Danish K–12 education, participatory design research with in-service teachers, development of novel tools and technologies, and literature studies of current CCI research. The paper addresses current gaps in the CCI literature and contributes a coherent approach and guiding questions for future CCI research on computational empowerment for emerging technology in education.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100616"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92039531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marie-Monique Schaper, Rachel Charlotte Smith, Ole Sejer Iversen, Christopher Frauenberger, Netta Iivari, Anja Zeising, Mike Tissenbaum, Elizabeth Marie Bonsignore, Jason Yip
{"title":"Computational Empowerment and children: Expanding empowerment, agency and participation in computation","authors":"Marie-Monique Schaper, Rachel Charlotte Smith, Ole Sejer Iversen, Christopher Frauenberger, Netta Iivari, Anja Zeising, Mike Tissenbaum, Elizabeth Marie Bonsignore, Jason Yip","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100617","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100617"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134832574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “How Does constructive feedback in an educational game sound to children?” [International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction 36 (2023) 100581]","authors":"Daeun Hwang, Younah Kang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"38 ","pages":"Article 100597"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50176822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Parvaneh Babari , Michael Hielscher , Peter Adriaan Edelsbrunner , Martina Conti , Beat Döbeli Honegger , Eva Marinus
{"title":"A literature review of children’s and youth’s conceptions of the internet","authors":"Parvaneh Babari , Michael Hielscher , Peter Adriaan Edelsbrunner , Martina Conti , Beat Döbeli Honegger , Eva Marinus","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100595","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Internet has become an important environment in everyday life of children and youth. Consequently, understanding basic Internet concepts has been listed as a target competence in many school curricula. However, any constructive approach to teaching concepts of the Internet should take into account learners’ initial conceptions, shaped by daily experiences, that they bring into the classroom. Based on a systematic literature review of research published between January 2000 and March 2022, we synthesized more than 400 descriptions reported by children and youth and classified them into five categories: (1) the structure of the Internet, (2) responsibility for the operation of the Internet, (3) web search engines and their function, (4) transmission techniques and (5) services of the Internet, as well as into subcategories that encompass commonly found kinds of conceptions within these categories. In addition, we classified all conceptions into three types: (1) intuitive, (2) elaborate and (3) misconception. The results show that children and youth hold more intuitive than elaborate conceptions. They also hold many misconceptions in all five categories. Although it has been suggested that age or user’s online experiences may be important factors for shaping elaborate conceptions about the Internet, we observed that many intuitive conceptions and misconceptions seem to be persistent across different age groups. This indicates that these factors, although necessary, but may not be sufficient for developing adequate conceptions. Instead, we argue that an elaborate conception of the structure of the Internet requires explicit learning and instruction. Finally, we explain implications of our findings for education and for future research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100595"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50176808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computational empowerment of children: Design research on empowering and impactful designs by children","authors":"Netta Iivari, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Heidi Hartikainen, Sumita Sharma, Essi Lehto, Jenni Holappa, Tonja Molin-Juustila","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100600","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prioritizing children’s empowerment in and through design has been on the agenda of child–computer interaction (CCI) research for a long time. Recently, the notion of the computational empowerment of children has received attention. However, there are still open issues in our understanding and advocacy of it. A related development is the recent interest in the longer-term impacts of our work. Fast and furious participation of children in design sessions is considered inadequate. We should advocate for longer-term trajectories and possibilities for children to make changes that will influence our world. However, the literature is limited in addressing longer-term impacts. This study taps into these two research gaps and showcases how we have addressed the computational empowerment of children in a project tackling bullying at school through critical design and making. In this paper, we examine in detail the children’s designs and their trajectories from the viewpoint of empowerment and impact: whether and how these children’s designs show potential for the empowerment of those bullied and whether and how their designs have had an impact in the realm of digital technology development. Our study has interesting conceptual and methodological implications for CCI research and practice on the computational empowerment of children and on our design research practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100600"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50176811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jillian L. Warren , Alissa N. Antle , Alexandra Kitson , Alireza Davoodi
{"title":"A codesign study exploring needs, strategies, and opportunities for digital health platforms to address pandemic-related impacts on children and families","authors":"Jillian L. Warren , Alissa N. Antle , Alexandra Kitson , Alireza Davoodi","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100596","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>In this paper we contribute seven design opportunities for future digital health platforms, like Private Social Networks (PSNs), focused on supporting the (un)met mental health and socioemotional needs of children (</span><span><math><mo>∼</mo></math></span><span><span>8-12 years old) and their supporting adults (parents and teachers) in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. These were derived from the thematic analysis of a two-phase co-design study with children, their parents, and their teachers (Phase 1), and employees at our industry partner Curatio.me (Phase 2). Our thematic findings contribute understanding about the types of experiences children, families and educators have had, and open the conversation around designing digital health platforms that can support mental health and socioemotional wellbeing in children and their supporting adults. Through individualized tracking, social capabilities, and secure, vetted sources of support, PSNs offer unique opportunities to (1) provide children with a safe space to share, reflect and come together, (2) extend existing practices related to SEL across children’s changing contexts and developmental needs, (2) support an integrated </span>digital ecosystem of care across different stakeholders that allows for engagement and targeted interventions, and (3) support niche or marginalized communities in gaining access to relevant, meaningful and identity-specific support that may not otherwise be available.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100596"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50176813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Dindler , Ole Sejer Iversen , Mikkel Hjorth , Rachel Charlotte Smith , Hannah Djurssø Nielsen
{"title":"DORIT: An analytical model for computational empowerment in K-9 education","authors":"Christian Dindler , Ole Sejer Iversen , Mikkel Hjorth , Rachel Charlotte Smith , Hannah Djurssø Nielsen","doi":"10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100599","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents and explores an analytical, research-based model for computational empowerment in K-9 education. The model, entitled DORIT (“Do your Own Research In Technology”), contributes to Child–Computer Interaction research by providing scaffolding for teachers to create teaching activities emphasising a critical inquiry approach to computational empowerment. We present the DORIT model, its research base and report from a study where 18 in-service teachers took part in codesigning and testing lesson plans based on the model for grades 1, 6, 7 and 9. The lesson plans serve as proof-of-concept demonstrations of how the DORIT model can scaffold teaching activities. We further analyse how the teachers used the model in practice, and report from post-interviews with the teachers regarding their experiences with the model. We conclude the paper by discussing the potentials and challenges of the DORIT model to support computational empowerment in future CCI research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38431,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100599"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50176812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}