Eliciting Preschool Children's Preferences for Augmented Reality Smart Glasses

Juan Pablo Hourcade; Summer Schmuecker; Delaney Norris; Meredith Onions; Amy Gilhoi

doi:10.1145/3713043.3728861

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Eliciting Preschool Children's Preferences for Augmented Reality Smart Glasses

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Eliciting Preschool Children's Preferences for Augmented Reality Smart Glasses

Juan Pablo Hourcade, Summer Schmuecker, Delaney Norris, Meredith Onions and Amy Gilhoi

IDC '25: Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children, pp.608-621

06/23/2025

DOI: 10.1145/3713043.3728861

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Motivated by ethical concerns, we build upon prior research on adult stakeholder perspectives on the potential uses of augmented reality smart glasses (ARSG) by children by obtaining the perspectives of 3-5-year-old children through play-based design activities. In the activities, children imagined a broad set of experiences with ARSG technologies, such as perceiving a range of objects, imagined beings and places, as well as altering the perception of items in the real world. We also noted that children often expected to perceive the same items as others, which facilitated social activities, but also engaged in selective disclosure when perceiving something more private. The activities we conducted provide insights on likely expectations by this age group for ARSG activities, which should be considered in future designs and ethical reflections, as well as further validation of play-based design as a method to obtain preschool children's ideas about technologies.

Augmented Reality

Ethics

early childhood

extended reality

play-based design

preschool children

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Title: Subtitle: Eliciting Preschool Children's Preferences for Augmented Reality Smart Glasses
Creators: Juan Pablo Hourcade - University of Iowa, Computer Science
Summer Schmuecker - University of Iowa, Computer Science
Delaney Norris - Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Meredith Onions - Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Amy Gilhoi - Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: IDC '25: Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children, pp.608-621
DOI: 10.1145/3713043.3728861
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages: 14
Grant note: Reality Labs Research
This work is part of a consortium working to develop ethical guidelines for XR research with children. It was funded by an unrestricted gift from Reality Labs Research.
Language: English
Date published: 06/23/2025
Academic Unit: Nursing; Computer Science
Record Identifier: 9984961937002771

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