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Valguarnera_2022_ACM-IDC22
Conference paper (in proceedings)

Magic and reality : what children’s drawings tell us about their perception of technology

  • Valguarnera, Sveva Istituto Dalle Molle di studi sull'intelligenza artificiale (IDSIA), Facoltà di scienze informatiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
  • Sylla, Cristina Research centre on Child Studies, ITI/LARSyS, University of Minho Braga, Portugal
  • Landoni, Monica Istituto Dalle Molle di studi sull'intelligenza artificiale (IDSIA), Facoltà di scienze informatiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
  • 2022
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  • IDC '22: Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference. - 2022, p. 498-503
Drawings
Descriptive text
Age
Gender
Expectations
Competences
Magic
English In this paper we explore children’s perception of technology by looking at the drawings and descriptive texts submitted to the Design and Research Challenge run for the International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2022 by 166 children from US, Japan, Portugal and Switzerland aged 7 to 11 years old. We cluster and analyse drawings as a means to elicit the perception, understanding and expectations children have of the role technology can play in supporting connectedness, the theme of the conference. We report differences and similarities across countries, age and gender, as well as discuss the dichotomy between magic and realistic proposals, as it provides an important dimension of the CCI design space. Therefore, we start by looking at the use of drawings for better understanding children’s needs and wishes and move on to explore the children’s sense of technology, to finally reflect on its implications on design.
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