Designing children's digital-physical play in natural outdoors settings

J. Back; C. Heeffer; S. Paget; A. Rau; E.L.S. Pysander; A. Waern

doi:10.1145/2851581.2892416

Designing children's digital-physical play in natural outdoors settings

J. Back
, C. Heeffer
, S. Paget
, A. Rau
, E.L.S. Pysander
, A. Waern

Department of Urban and Rural Development

Publication: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper in proceedings › peer-review

Abstract

Children's outdoor play is fluent and fluctuating, shaped by environmental features and conditions. The article reports on a project where interaction designers and landscape architects work together to develop solutions for integrating interactive play in outdoor environments. Here we report on a schoolyard trial, where interactive play technology was installed as an integral part of the schoolyard environment, and discuss the interplay between technology and the environment. We highlight in particular how the interactive technology contributed to the versatility of play activities, but also how the nature setting and the availability of natural materials contributed to the play activities around the interactive artefacts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1359-1366
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4082-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892416
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

Interactive play
Landscape architecture
Playscape

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Designing children's digital-physical play in natural outdoors settings. / Back, J.; Heeffer, C.; Paget, S. et al.
CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery , 2016. p. 1359-1366.

Publication: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper in proceedings › peer-review

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