Mind-Full

@inproceedings{10.1145/3544549.3583172,

title = {Developing Participatory Methods to Consider the Ethics of Emerging Technologies for Children},

author = {Juan Pablo Hourcade and Meryl Alper and Alissa N. Antle and Gökçe Elif Baykal and Elizabeth Bonsignore and Tamara Clegg and Flannery Hope Currin and Christian Dindler and Eva Eriksson and Jerry Alan Fails and Franca Garzotto and Michail Giannakos and Carina S. Gonzalez and Ole Sejer Iversen and Monica Landoni and Nuria Medina Medina and Chris Quintana and Janet Read and Maria Roussou and Elisa Rubegni and Summer Schmuecker and Suleman Shahid and Cristina Maria Sylla and Greg Walsh and Svetlana Yarosh and Jason Yip},

url = {https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1145/3544549.3583172},

doi = {10.1145/3544549.3583172},

isbn = {9781450394222},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {Hamburg, Germany},

series = {CHI EA '23},

abstract = {This SIG will provide child-computer interaction researchers and practitioners, as well as other interested CHI attendees, an opportunity to discuss topics related to developing participatory methods to consider the ethics of emerging technologies for children. While the community has extensively debated on ethical issues, we have not had ample discussion of methods to study the ethical implications of emerging technologies. Consequently, we have been largely reactive and have not made significant contributions to public discussions on these topics, leaving these largely to experts from other fields. Our community is well-placed to contribute unique perspectives by leveraging its expertise in participatory methods, combining expert views with those of stakeholders, including children.},

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@inproceedings{10.1145/3290605.3300266,

title = {Evaluating the Impact of a Mobile Neurofeedback App for Young Children at School and Home},

author = {Alissa N. Antle and Elgin-Skye McLaren and Holly Fiedler and Naomi Johnson},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300266},

doi = {10.1145/3290605.3300266},

isbn = {9781450359702},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},

pages = {1–13},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {Glasgow, Scotland Uk},

series = {CHI '19},

abstract = {About 18% of children in industrialized countries suffer from anxiety. We designed a mobile neurofeedback app, called Mind-Full, based on existing design guidelines. Our goal was for young children in lower socio-economic status schools to improve their ability to self-regulate anxiety by using Mind-Full. In this paper we report on quantitative outcomes from a sixteen-week field evaluation with 20 young children (aged 5 to 8). Our methodological contribution includes using a control group, validated measures of anxiety and stress, and assessing transfer and maintenance. Results from teacher and parent behavioral surveys indicated gains in children's ability to self-regulate anxiety at school and home; a decrease in anxious behaviors at home; and cortisol tests showed variable improvement in physiological stress levels. We contribute to HCI for mental health with evidence that it is viable to use a mobile app in lower socio-economic status schools to improve children's mental health.},

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@inproceedings{10.1145/3294109.3295650,

title = {Design for Mental Health: How Socio-Technological Processes Mediate Outcome Measures in a Field Study of a Wearable Anxiety App},

author = {Alissa N. Antle and Elgin Skye McLaren and Holly Fiedler and Naomi Johnson},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3295650},

doi = {10.1145/3294109.3295650},

isbn = {9781450361965},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction},

pages = {87–96},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {Tempe, Arizona, USA},

series = {TEI '19},

abstract = {Millions of children have challenges with anxiety that negatively impact their development, education and well-being. To address this challenge, we developed version 2.0 of Mind-Full, a wearable, mobile neurofeedback system, designed to teach young children to learn to self-regulate anxiety. We present a mixed methods evaluation of a seven week long intervention in schools. We report on a subset of outcome measures related to 10 children's anxiety and stress in the classroom and describe mediating socio-technological processes that may have impacted outcomes. Findings showed improvement in children's ability to self-regulate anxiety and reduced cortisol levels for some children. Qualitative findings suggested that children who made multimodal connections during system mediated learning and had teacher support for learning transfer responded well to the intervention. We suggest that framing mental health app design as a distributed, adaptive, socio-technological system enables designers to better meet individual's unique and changing mental health needs.},

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@inproceedings{10.1145/2771839.2771852,

title = {Using Neurofeedback to Teach Self-Regulation to Children Living in Poverty},

author = {Alissa N. Antle and Leslie Chesick and Aaron Levisohn and Srilekha Kirshnamachari Sridharan and Perry Tan},

url = {https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1145/2771839.2771852},

doi = {10.1145/2771839.2771852},

isbn = {9781450335904},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children},

pages = {119–128},

publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},

address = {Boston, Massachusetts},

series = {IDC '15},

abstract = {In this paper we describe a neuro-feedback system and applications we designed and deployed to help vulnerable children at an NGO-funded school, called Nepal House Kaski, in Pokhara, Nepal. The system, called Mind-Full, enables traumatized children to learn and practice self-regulation by playing simple, culturally appropriate games using an EEG headset connected to an interactive tablet. Children can interact with Mind-Full using body actions that may change their physiology and brain states, which are sensed by the EEG headset and used as input to the games. One of the key challenges was to build an application that the children could immediately understand how to use when they are illiterate, don't speak English and have no computer experience. We describe Mind-Full and highlight the design principles we used to meet these constraints. We report on a subset of findings from a 14-week field experiment in which we use a mixed-methods approach to determine if children improved their ability to self-regulate during gameplay as well as in the classroom, playground and in therapy sessions. Findings from quantitative and qualitative assessment measures suggest that the treatment group significantly improved their ability to calm down and focus in a variety of contexts.},

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@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-642-34292-9_36,

title = {Creative Design: Exploring Value Propositions with Urban Nepalese Children},

author = {Alissa N. Antle and Allen Bevans},

editor = {Anton Nijholt and Teresa Rom ao and Dennis Reidsma},

isbn = {978-3-642-34292-9},

year  = {2012},

date = {2012-01-01},

booktitle = {Advances in Computer Entertainment},

pages = {465--468},

publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},

address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},

abstract = {Interactive technologies are being introduced into urban children's lives in developing countries. It is critical that these children have an active voice in the process of developing such technologies. Towards these aims we describe the research goals, process and outcomes for an action research project. The overarching goal of the research is to investigate and better understand how edutainment-based interactive technologies might change or improve the lives of urban Nepalese children, their families and their communities. In this paper, we describe the preliminary phase of the research in which in which we design and run a creative design workshop with Nepalese children.},

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