TY - GEN
T1 - A little bit of coding goes a long way
T2 - 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2018
AU - Ofer, Netta
AU - Hitron, Tom
AU - Erel, Hadas
AU - Zuckerman, Oren
AU - David, Idan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/6/19
Y1 - 2018/6/19
N2 - Outdoor play has known benefits for children's development, and studies show it is in decline. Heads-Up Games have been proposed as a possible solution, in some cases with an integrated coding platform to enrich play variety. In this pilot study we set out to evaluate a Scratch-based coding platform for outdoor play. The code primitives control digital features of a stick-like outdoor play object. We observed children's play patterns with the coding platform and with the play object, and report on three distinct patterns: "Basic Exploration", "Advanced Exploration", and "Game Invention". Our preliminary findings show that all children began with "Basic Exploration" and progressed either to "Advanced Exploration" or "Game Invention". With regards to outdoor play benefits, the "Game Invention" pattern was associated with more collaborative social interaction, physical activity, and "heads up" interaction. We discuss the implications for future coding platforms designed for outdoor play.
AB - Outdoor play has known benefits for children's development, and studies show it is in decline. Heads-Up Games have been proposed as a possible solution, in some cases with an integrated coding platform to enrich play variety. In this pilot study we set out to evaluate a Scratch-based coding platform for outdoor play. The code primitives control digital features of a stick-like outdoor play object. We observed children's play patterns with the coding platform and with the play object, and report on three distinct patterns: "Basic Exploration", "Advanced Exploration", and "Game Invention". Our preliminary findings show that all children began with "Basic Exploration" and progressed either to "Advanced Exploration" or "Game Invention". With regards to outdoor play benefits, the "Game Invention" pattern was associated with more collaborative social interaction, physical activity, and "heads up" interaction. We discuss the implications for future coding platforms designed for outdoor play.
KW - Changing the rules
KW - Children
KW - Coding
KW - Head-up games
KW - Outdoor play.
KW - Scratch
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051483145&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3202185.3210782
DO - 10.1145/3202185.3210782
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85051483145
T3 - IDC 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children
SP - 599
EP - 604
BT - IDC 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 19 June 2018 through 22 June 2018
ER -