Designing a Smart Reading Environment with and for Children

In this paper, we present an ongoing project named STREEN (Story Reading Environmental Enrichment). The project explores a concept of augmented reading focusing on a smart environment that is able to automatically trigger digital media enrichments depending on the reading performance and the narrative. By creating an engaging and immersive reading experience, STREEN has the potential to support early readers. In order to understand how the story reading activities can be enriched through digital media, as well as the effect of such enrichments on the reading experience, the design and development of STREEN follows a Design Based Research approach, involving teachers and primary school children along the design process. In this paper, we describe the first steps towards the construction of a smart reading environment for primary school children.