Conference proceeding
Voice Agents Supporting High-Quality Social Play
Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on interaction design and children, pp.314-325
IDC '19
06/12/2019
DOI: 10.1145/3311927.3323151
Abstract
While the design of Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) has mostly focused on applications for adults, VUIs also provide potential advantages for young children in enabling concurrent interactions with the physical and social world. Current applications for young children focus mostly on media playing, answering questions, and highly-structured activities. There is an opportunity to go beyond these applications by using VUIs to support less structured, developmentally appropriate activities. In this paper, we describe our first step in pursuing this opportunity through an exploration of voice agents to facilitate high-quality social play guided by a partnership with eight 3-4 year old children. During 24 design sessions, we explored making voice agents tangible and enabling children to control what voice agents say. After analyzing the sessions, we learned voice agents could help keep children socially engaged in play and children liked incorporating the agents with the physical aspects of their play. On the other hand, enabling children to control the voice agents caused distractions from play.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Voice Agents Supporting High-Quality Social Play
- Creators
- Luiza Pantoja - University of IowaKyle Diederich - University of IowaLiam Crawford - University of IowaJuan Hourcade - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on interaction design and children, pp.314-325
- Series
- IDC '19
- DOI
- 10.1145/3311927.3323151
- Publisher
- ACM
- Grant note
- name: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, award: 99999.013579/2013-04
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/12/2019
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984259413902771
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