Stories and Voice Agents to Inspire Preschool Children's Social Play: An Experience with StoryCarnival: Rediscovering Childhood

Juan Pablo Hourcade; Ewelina Bakala; Anaclara Gerosa; Flannery Currin

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Stories and Voice Agents to Inspire Preschool Children's Social Play: An Experience with StoryCarnival: Rediscovering Childhood

Juan Pablo Hourcade, Ewelina Bakala, Anaclara Gerosa and Flannery Currin

22ND ANNUAL ACM INTERACTION DESIGN AND CHILDREN CONFERENCE, IDC 2023, pp.543-547

01/01/2023

DOI: 10.1145/3585088.3593893

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Abstract

In a post-lockdown context with significant concerns about children's social skills, it is important for technologies to play a positive role in supporting children across cultures, settings, and backgrounds. The research presented in this work-in-progress is about StoryCarnival, a technology designed to promote creative, social role play among preschool children. We conducted StoryCarnival play sessions for three weeks with a group of 3-4-year-old children in Montevideo, Uruguay, a very different setting from the one where StoryCarnival was designed. We present preliminary results suggesting the activities resulted in a significant increase in children's social play. We also discuss the impact of cultural differences and describe experiences with some features of StoryCarnival that had not previously been used in the field.

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Title: Subtitle: Stories and Voice Agents to Inspire Preschool Children's Social Play: An Experience with StoryCarnival: Rediscovering Childhood
Creators: Juan Pablo Hourcade - University of Iowa
Ewelina Bakala - Univ Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
Anaclara Gerosa - Universidad de la República de Uruguay
Flannery Currin - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: 22ND ANNUAL ACM INTERACTION DESIGN AND CHILDREN CONFERENCE, IDC 2023, pp.543-547
DOI: 10.1145/3585088.3593893
Publisher: Assoc Computing Machinery
Number of pages: 5
Grant note: 1908476; 2040204 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) 000390183 / National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; National Science Foundation (NSF)
Language: English
Date published: 01/01/2023
Academic Unit: Nursing; Computer Science
Record Identifier: 9984546159902771

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