Magic and reality
what children’s drawings tell us about their perception of technology
Additional information
Authors
Valguarnera S.,
Sylla C.,
Landoni M.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2022
Language
English
Abstract
In this paper we explore children’s perception of technology by looking at the drawings and descriptive texts submitted to the Design and Research Challenge run for the International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2022 by 166 children from US, Japan, Portugal and Switzerland aged 7 to 11 years old. We cluster and analyse drawings as a means to elicit the perception, understanding and expectations children have of the role technology can play in supporting connectedness, the theme of the conference. We report differences and similarities across countries, age and gender, as well as discuss the dichotomy between magic and realistic proposals, as it provides an important dimension of the CCI design space. Therefore, we start by looking at the use of drawings for better understanding children’s needs and wishes and move on to explore the children’s sense of technology, to finally reflect on its implications on design.
Keywords
Drawings, Descriptive text, Age, Gender, Expectations, Competences, Magic
Conference proceedings
IDC '22: Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference
Pages (or article number)
498-503
Diffusion
License
License undefined
Visibility
Public
Status open access
Green
