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Mapping child-computer interaction research through co-word analysis
This study quantifies the thematic landscape of the CCI field and elaborates on emerging topics as these are manifested in publications in the two primary venues of the CCI field, namely the proceedings of the annual IDC conference and the International Journal of CCI. Overall, a total of 1059 articles, and their respective 2445 unique, author-assigned keywords, are included in our analyses - all papers have been published between 2003 and 2018. The results indicate that the community has focused (i.e., high frequency keywords) in areas including Participatory Design, Tangibles, Design, Education, Coding, and Making. These...
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - February 4, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Responses to hotspots during parent–child shared reading of eBook
Publication date: Available online 28 December 2019Source: International Journal of Child-Computer InteractionAuthor(s): Soaad M. AbdelhadiAbstractThis research aimed to investigate the impact of eBook design on parents-preschooler dyads’ responses to hotspots (clickable locations on the screen that activate animations and/or sounds) during shared reading of mathematics-related eBooks. Two eBooks were designed and compared. Hotspots in the math eBook condition guided joint attention to mathematically-related activated features; while hotspots in the emotion-action eBook condition guided joint attention to emotions and ac...
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - December 29, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Editorial Board
Publication date: December 2019Source: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, Volume 22Author(s): (Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction)
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - November 24, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

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Publication date: December 2019Source: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, Volume 22Author(s): (Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction)
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - November 24, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Bridging the gap in mobile interaction design for children with disabilities: Perspectives from a pediatric speech language pathologist
Publication date: Available online 6 November 2019Source: International Journal of Child-Computer InteractionAuthor(s): Yao Du, Katie SalenAbstractSpeech language pathologists (SLPs) work with children with diverse types of disabilities. Their clinical knowledge and experience using mobile technology can inform child-computer researchers novel design techniques to facilitate communication and learning for children with disabilities. This paper presents perspectives from an SLP through an overview of design challenges and opportunities for children with communication impairments across disciplines such as instructional desi...
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - November 8, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

What they can and cannot: A meta-analysis of research on touch and multi-touch gestures by two to seven-year-olds
Publication date: Available online 4 November 2019Source: International Journal of Child-Computer InteractionAuthor(s): Uthpala Samarakoon, Hakim Usoof, Thilina HalolluwaAbstractThere is growing interest in understanding to what extent small children can use multi-touch technologies as there is much scope for using the same to support their educational activities. Touch gesture performance is one of the main desired elements in touch-based e-learning systems designed for children aged two to seven. Accumulated research on touch gesture performance by children has identified several common and frequently used gestures that ...
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - November 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

A review of selected methods, techniques and tools in Child–Computer Interaction (CCI) developed/adapted to support children’s involvement in technology development
Publication date: Available online 22 October 2019Source: International Journal of Child-Computer InteractionAuthor(s): Damyanka Tsvyatkova, Cristiano StorniAbstractChild–Computer Interaction (CCI) explores the design of systems that reflect the nature of children’s growth and cognitive development, and the opportunity for children’s involvement in the design process through developing their own technology in collaboration with researchers and designers. In this paper, we focus on the potential roles played by children in the design process, and we review various CCI methods, techniques, and tools that have been deve...
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - November 3, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

A review of selected methods, techniques and tools in Child-Computer Interaction (CCI) developed/adapted to support children’s involvement in technology development
Publication date: Available online 22 October 2019Source: International Journal of Child-Computer InteractionAuthor(s): Damyanka Tsvyatkova, Cristiano StorniAbstractChild-Computer Interaction (CCI) explores the design of systems that reflect the nature of children’s growth and cognitive development, and the opportunity for children’s involvement in the design process through developing their own technology in collaboration with researchers and designers. In this paper, we focus on the potential roles played by children in the design process, and we review various CCI methods, techniques, and tools that have been develo...
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - October 22, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Children’s design recommendations for online safety education
We report the results of the workshops and further analyze the results using the lens of Schwartz’s theory of basic human values. Based on the analysis, we recommend that child-computer interaction designers and practitioners of online safety education acknowledge the following when developing educational packages on online safety for children’s use: considering both children’s and educators’ objectives and related values; integrating aspects of children’s own media culture; including more concrete advice; having a positive tone; and, engaging both children and teachers in the design and evaluation. (Source: Inte...
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - October 13, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Parental involvement and attitudes towards young Greek children’s mobile usage
This study presents the main findings from a research conducted with 293 families in Greece between September 2018 and November 2018. It reports on parents’ perceptions regarding children’s usage of smart mobile technologies both at the home and the kindergarten context. The study results show that most of the parents have positive attitudes towards the use of these technologies. Parents want to support their children’s learning and seek to provide a stimulating home learning environment for them. Parents’ answers seem to differentiate depending on socioeconomic background, age and education. Older and less-educate...
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - August 9, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Prosocial games for inclusion: Interaction patterns and game outcomes for elementary-aged children
Publication date: Available online 5 August 2019Source: International Journal of Child-Computer InteractionAuthor(s): Sarah Parsons, Efstathia Karakosta, Michael Boniface, Simon CrowleAbstractThere is good evidence that children’s prosocial skills are positively associated with health, well-being, and academic outcomes. Games-based approaches have demonstrated strong potential for teaching prosocial skills in both digital and non-digital formats. However, much of this research focuses on middle-childhood and adolescence and is based on self-reports from teachers, children, and parents. This paper reports on the pilot eva...
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - August 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Editorial Board
Publication date: September 2019Source: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, Volume 21Author(s): (Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction)
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - July 31, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Embedded figures in stories (EFiS): A method to observe preschoolers’ interactions with spatial manipulatives
This study mainly contributes to design methods to extract age specific knowledge about very young children’s spatial thinking skills, which lay a basis for further STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) achievements. (Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction)
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - July 9, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

The scope of autonomy when teaching computational thinking in primary school
Publication date: Available online 3 July 2019Source: International Journal of Child-Computer InteractionAuthor(s): Niklas Carlborg, Markus Tyrén, Carl Heath, Eva ErikssonAbstractDuring the 21st century, there has been an increased interest in the field of computational thinking as a consequence of the ever faster technical development. However, educating future generations in programming and computational thinking is not trivial. Many different platforms and teaching approaches can be used for this purpose. Inspired by the UK initiative with BBC micro:bit, this paper strives to identify what may be important to consider ...
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - July 4, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research

Children’s embodied intuitive interaction — Design aspects of embodiment
This study has explored embodiment for intuitive interaction in children. The research question for the study was: what is the role of design aspects of embodiment in facilitation of intuitive interaction in children in the context of tactile interactions. The study identified the extent to which design aspects of embodiment facilitate intuitive interaction in children. An observational study with 108 children (55 girls and 53 boys) was carried out. Half of them played with physical Jenga and the other half played with a virtual Jenga.The physical Jenga demonstrated more intuitive interactions than the equivalent virtual i...
Source: International Journal of Child Computer Interaction - June 20, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research