Child-centred design supported by comprehensive child application use analysis

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2016
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Hashemi, Mohammad
Herbert, John
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Since children already use and explore applications on smartphones, we use this as the starting point for design. Our monitoring and analysis framework, BaranC, enables us to discover and analyse which applications children uses and precisely how they interact with them. The monitoring happens unobtrusively in the background so children interact normally in their own natural environment without artificial constraints. Thus, we can discover to what extent a child of a particular age engages with, and how they physically interact with, existing applications. This information in turn provides the basis for design of new child-centred applications which can then be subject to the same comprehensive child use analysis using our framework. The work focuses on the first aspect, namely, the monitoring and analysis of current child use of smartphones. Experiments show the value of this approach and interesting results have been obtained from this precise monitoring of child smartphone usage.
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User-centred design , User experience , Human and computer interaction
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Hashemi, M. and Herbert, J. (2016) ‘Child-centred design supported by comprehensive child application use analysis’, in Proceedings of the the 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '16), Manchester, United Kingdom, 21-24 June. New York, USA: ACM, pp. 707-712. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2930674.2936013
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© 2016, the Authors. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the the 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children http://doi.acm.org/ 10.1145/2930674.2936013