Designing Stories to Inspire Preschoolers’ Creative, Collaborative Roleplay

Flannery Hope Currin; Kyle Diederich; Luiza Pantoja; Hannah Cargo; Noelle Franzone; Josephine Geiger-Lee; Juan Pablo Hourcade

doi:10.1145/3582515.3609516

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Designing Stories to Inspire Preschoolers’ Creative, Collaborative Roleplay

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Designing Stories to Inspire Preschoolers’ Creative, Collaborative Roleplay

Flannery Hope Currin, Kyle Diederich, Luiza Pantoja, Hannah Cargo, Noelle Franzone, Josephine Geiger-Lee and Juan Pablo Hourcade

GoodIT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, pp.40-47

09/06/2023

DOI: 10.1145/3582515.3609516

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Abstract

Young children's interactions with media influence their social play, which impacts their development. Seven years ago, at the start of a project developing a system to support preschool children's creative, collaborative roleplay, we identified a need for children's media specifically intended to set up play. In this paper, we present best practices (e.g., designing a balanced cast of characters with complementary skills) and lessons learned (e.g., to proactively counter themes that may encourage stereotypical play) over the course of this project. We also describe our ongoing and planned future work which aims to provide additional scaffolding for children who need extra support to engage with their peers and to create abstractions based on what we have found works well so others can leverage that knowledge as they create their own content.

social skills development

digital narratives

sociodramatic play

preschool children

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Title: Subtitle: Designing Stories to Inspire Preschoolers’ Creative, Collaborative Roleplay
Creators: Flannery Hope Currin - University of Iowa
Kyle Diederich - St. Norbert College
Luiza Pantoja - University of Iowa
Hannah Cargo - University of Iowa
Noelle Franzone - University of Iowa
Josephine Geiger-Lee - University of Iowa
Juan Pablo Hourcade - University of Iowa, Computer Science
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: GoodIT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, pp.40-47
DOI: 10.1145/3582515.3609516
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Grant note: name: National Science Foundationtion Graduate Research Fellowship Program, award: 000390183; DOI: 10.13039/100000001, name: National Science Foundation, award: 1908476, 2040204
Language: English
Date published: 09/06/2023
Academic Unit: Nursing; Computer Science
Record Identifier: 9984473237002771

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