Browsing by Author "Chipman, Gene"

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    How Young Can Our Design Partners Be?
    (2002-09-18) Farber, Allison; Druin, Allison; Chipman, Gene; Julian, Dawn; Somashekhar, Sheila
    For this work-in-progress presentation, we report on our experiences working with young children as technology design partners. Our team from the Human-Computer Interaction Lab has extensive participatory design experience in working with 7-11 year old children. Here we describe our first year working with 4-6 year old children and the ways that we altered our methodologies to meet the unique needs of our younger design partners. (Also UMIACS-TR-2002-76) (Also HCI-TR-2002-13)
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    Sensing, Storytelling, and Children: Putting Users in Control
    (2003-04-04) Montemayor, Jaime; Druin, Allison; Chipman, Gene; Farber, Allison; Guha, Mona Leigh
    Over the past few years, researchers have been exploring possibilities for how embedded sensors can free children from traditional interaction strategies with keyboards and mice. In this paper, we consider sensing-based interactions from a child's perspective. That is, how children decide to handle sensor data and affect state changes in their environment. We will present this in the context of our research on physical interactive storytelling environments for children. The system architecture will be presented as well as an empirical study of the technology's use with 18 children, ages 5-6. We will discuss the challenges and opportunities for kindergarten children to become designers of their own sensing-based interactions. UMIACS-TR-2003-16 HCIL-TR-2003-05