TY - GEN
T1 - Coding for outdoor play
T2 - 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
AU - Ofer, Netta
AU - David, Idan
AU - Erel, Hadas
AU - Zuckerman, Oren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/5/2
Y1 - 2019/5/2
N2 - Outdoor play is in decline, including its benefits to children’s development. Coding, a typically indoor, screen-based activity, can potentially enrich outdoor play, serving as a rule-making medium. We present a coding platform that controls a programmable hardware device, enabling children to technologically-enhance their outdoor play experiences by inventing game ideas, coding them, and playing their games together with their friends. In the evaluation study, 24 children used the system to invent and play outdoor games. Results show children are able to bridge between the different domains of coding and outdoor play. They used the system to modify traditional games and invent new ones, enriching their outdoor experience. Children merged computational concepts with physical game elements, integrated physical outdoor properties as variables in their code, and were excited to see their code come to life. We conclude children can use coding to express their ideas by creating technologically-enhanced outdoor play experiences.
AB - Outdoor play is in decline, including its benefits to children’s development. Coding, a typically indoor, screen-based activity, can potentially enrich outdoor play, serving as a rule-making medium. We present a coding platform that controls a programmable hardware device, enabling children to technologically-enhance their outdoor play experiences by inventing game ideas, coding them, and playing their games together with their friends. In the evaluation study, 24 children used the system to invent and play outdoor games. Results show children are able to bridge between the different domains of coding and outdoor play. They used the system to modify traditional games and invent new ones, enriching their outdoor experience. Children merged computational concepts with physical game elements, integrated physical outdoor properties as variables in their code, and were excited to see their code come to life. We conclude children can use coding to express their ideas by creating technologically-enhanced outdoor play experiences.
KW - Children
KW - Games/Play
KW - Outdoor play
KW - Programming
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067605230&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3290605.3300394
DO - 10.1145/3290605.3300394
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85067605230
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 4 May 2019 through 9 May 2019
ER -