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View article: AI-empowered social robots in early childhood classrooms: roles, challenges, and opportunities
AI-empowered social robots in early childhood classrooms: roles, challenges, and opportunities Open
This study examined the integration of an AI-powered social robot into a Chinese language learning classroom for second-grade students in a public elementary school in Southern China. Over an 8-week period, an AI-empowered social robot was…
View article: What is "Spatial" about Spatial Computing?
What is "Spatial" about Spatial Computing? Open
Recent advancements in geographic information systems and mixed reality technologies have positioned spatial computing as a transformative paradigm in computational science. However, the field remains conceptually fragmented, with diverse …
View article: Reinforcing and Reclaiming The Home: Co-speculating Future Technologies to Support Remote and Hybrid Work
Reinforcing and Reclaiming The Home: Co-speculating Future Technologies to Support Remote and Hybrid Work Open
With the rise of remote and hybrid work after COVID-19, there is growing interest in understanding remote workers' experiences and designing digital technology for the future of work within the field of HCI. To gain a holistic understandin…
View article: Emotion Embodied: Unveiling the Expressive Potential of Single-Hand Gestures
Emotion Embodied: Unveiling the Expressive Potential of Single-Hand Gestures Open
Hand gestures are widely used in daily life for expressing emotions, yet gesture input is not part of existing emotion tracking systems. To seek a practical and effortless way of using gestures to inform emotions, we explore the relationsh…
View article: Methods for Family-Centered Design: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice
Methods for Family-Centered Design: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice Open
Technology is pervasive in family life. Family-centered design can enable the creation of technological solutions that align with the diverse needs of and dynamics within families. Yet, designing meaningful interactive technologies that ar…
View article: Parent-Child Joint Media Engagement Within HCI: A Scoping Analysis of the Research Landscape
Parent-Child Joint Media Engagement Within HCI: A Scoping Analysis of the Research Landscape Open
Parents play essential roles in children's play and learning with various media, often leading to positive and productive engagement outcomes for both parties. As such, an increasing number of HCI research has focused on understanding pare…
View article: Supporting Physically Active CS-Ed for Children: Exploring the Design of Physical Play Friendly Coding Blocks
Supporting Physically Active CS-Ed for Children: Exploring the Design of Physical Play Friendly Coding Blocks Open
In this work, we share our design exploration of coding blocks to incorporate physical play into programming kits for children's computing education. First, we cover the tradition of experiential learning in computing education, with descr…
View article: Designing to Disrupt While Encountering Disruption: Engaging With the Unexpected in Educational Research and Practice
Designing to Disrupt While Encountering Disruption: Engaging With the Unexpected in Educational Research and Practice Open
This symposium brings together eleven projects across three continents to examine notions of disruption in educational research.Historically, notions of disruption have pointed to the ways research leverages innovation and transformative p…
View article: Technology-Mediated Strategies for Coping with Mental Health Challenges: Insights from People with Bipolar Disorder
Technology-Mediated Strategies for Coping with Mental Health Challenges: Insights from People with Bipolar Disorder Open
Technology plays an increasingly pivotal role in mediating mental health support in people's everyday lives. However, it is not clear how that mediation is occurring, to what end, and what technologies are implicated. In this study, we exa…
View article: Exploring Computational Thinking with Physical Play through Design
Exploring Computational Thinking with Physical Play through Design Open
Physical play has often been leveraged to provide children with active and engaging learning experiences. However, coding activities are predominantly sedentary in front of the screen, and the application of physical play in Computer Scien…
View article: Family Negotiation in Joint Media Engagement with Creative Computing
Family Negotiation in Joint Media Engagement with Creative Computing Open
HCI researchers have been investigating family dynamics with new and emerging technologies during joint media engagement (JME) experiences. However, most studies describe family dynamics from parents' perspectives, such as their roles and …
View article: Adapt a Generic Human-Centered AI Design Framework in Children's Context
Adapt a Generic Human-Centered AI Design Framework in Children's Context Open
Through systematically analyzing the literature on designing AI-based technologies, we extracted design implications and synthesized them into a generic human-centered design framework for AI technologies to better support human needs and …
View article: Parental Facilitation of Young Children's Technology-based Learning Experiences from Nondominant Groups During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Parental Facilitation of Young Children's Technology-based Learning Experiences from Nondominant Groups During the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shifted family life across home, work, and education, especially families from nondominant groups. As schools and other educational programs moved online, parents became the primary facilitators for t…
View article: A survey of computational kits for young children
A survey of computational kits for young children Open
This paper presents a survey of computational kits that enable young children (ages 7 years old and under) to explore computing ideas and practices. We examined physical, virtual, and hybrid kits across three different perspectives: how th…
View article: Usability Investigation on the Localization of Text CAPTCHAs: Take Chinese Characters as a Case Study
Usability Investigation on the Localization of Text CAPTCHAs: Take Chinese Characters as a Case Study Open
Text CAPTCHA has been an effective means to protect online systems from spams and abuses caused by automatic scripts which pretend to be human beings. However, nearly all the Text CAPTCHA designs in nowadays are based on English characters…
View article: Four-Dimensional Usability Investigation of Image CAPTCHA
Four-Dimensional Usability Investigation of Image CAPTCHA Open
Image CAPTCHA, aiming at effectively distinguishing human users from malicious script attacks, has been an important mechanism to protect online systems from spams and abuses. Despite the increasing interests in developing and deploying im…