The 4Cs for Young Children's Technology: Create, Connect, Communicate, and Control

Juan Pablo Hourcade; Flannery Currin

doi:10.1145/3612783.3612812

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The 4Cs for Young Children's Technology: Create, Connect, Communicate, and Control

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The 4Cs for Young Children's Technology: Create, Connect, Communicate, and Control

Juan Pablo Hourcade and Flannery Currin

XXIII International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, pp.1-7

ACM Other Conferences

Interaccion 2023: XXIII International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

09/04/2023

DOI: 10.1145/3612783.3612812

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The phenomena surrounding computers has, during the past 10-15 years, broadened to become a non-trivial component of young children's lives. This broadening is happening at a time when many technologies include dark patterns that induce compulsive use, disregard privacy, and lead to passive, isolating experiences. As a counter to these developments, we build on the 3Cs approach to young children's technologies (create, connect, and communicate), and propose a 4th C: control. We call for technologies that give children and caregivers control over their activities, time, data, and decision-making. In this paper, we provide a historical and child development perspective to motivate our approach, present its characteristics, illustrate it with examples, and discuss challenges and opportunities.

Software and its engineering -- Software creation and management -- Software development process management -- Software development methods -- Agile software development

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Title: Subtitle: The 4Cs for Young Children's Technology: Create, Connect, Communicate, and Control
Creators: Juan Pablo Hourcade - University of Iowa
Flannery Currin - University of Iowa
Contributors: Toni Granollers i Saltiveri (Editor)
Montserrat Sendín Veloso (Editor)
Juan Enrique Garrido Navarro (Editor)
Roberto García González (Editor)
Mercè Teixidó Cairol (Editor)
Marta Oliva Solé (Editor)
Rosa Mª Gil Iranzo (Editor)
Afra Pascual Almenara (Editor)
Sergio Sayago Barrantes (Editor)
Kepa Landa Maritorena (Editor)
Ferran Joan Lega Llados (Editor)
Jordi Virgili Gomà (Editor)
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: XXIII International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, pp.1-7
Conference: Interaccion 2023: XXIII International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Series: ACM Other Conferences
DOI: 10.1145/3612783.3612812
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Grant note: DOI: 10.13039/100000001, name: National Science Foundation, award: 1908476, 2040204
Language: English
Date published: 09/04/2023
Academic Unit: Nursing; Computer Science
Record Identifier: 9984549859602771

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