"This book is magical!"
exploring emergent readers’ preferences and wishes for storytelling tools
Additional information
Authors
Valguarnera S.,
Landoni M.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2022
Language
English
Abstract
Emergent readers are young children who are beginning their journey towards literacy; they enjoy shared reading both at school and at home, and maybe they are already able to read and write their own names. We involved emergent readers aged 4 to 6 years old and recruited through a local library, in a two-month long exploratory study, with weekly sessions in which they interacted with both traditional books and digital storytelling tools, engaging them in a series of activities to elicit their preferences, needs and wishes, following the formative evaluation approach. Basing our findings on direct observations, field notes and analysis of the recorded sessions, we found that tools explicitly designed for interaction trigger a higher level of engagement. Besides, we gained a deeper insight on how to conduct collaborative design sessions with small groups of emergent readers.
Keywords
Children, Preschool, Collaborative design, Codesign, Emergent readers, Storytelling, Literacy
Conference proceedings
NordiCHI '22: Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference
Pages (or article number)
1-9
Diffusion
License
License undefined
Visibility
Public
Status open access
Green
