2024
Alexandra Kitson, Petr Slovak; Alissa N. Antle
Supporting Cognitive Reappraisal With Digital Technology: A Content Analysis and Scoping Review of Challenges, Interventions, and Future Directions Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '24 Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 17, .
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Alexandra Kitson, Alissa N. Antle, Sadhbh Kenny, Ashu Adhikari, Kenneth Karthik, Artun Çimensel,; Melissa Chan
“I Call Upon a Friend”: Virtual Reality-Based Supports for Cognitive Reappraisal Identified through Co-designing with Adolescents Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ' 13 Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 18, .
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Xiaofei Zhou; Yushan Zhou; Yunfan Gong; Zhenyao Cai; Annie; Qinqin Xiao; Alissa N. Antle; Zhen Bai
"Bee and I need diversity!'' Break filter bubbles in recommendation systems through embodied AI learning Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Association for Computing Machinery, .
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Seray B Ibrahim; Alissa N. Antle; Julie A. Kientz; Graham Pullin; Petr Slovák
A systematic review of the probes method in research with children and families Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '24 Association for Computing Machinery, .
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2023
Petr Slovak; Alissa Antle; Nikki Theofanopoulou; Claudia Daudén Roquet; James Gross; Katherine Isbister
Designing for Emotion Regulation Interventions: An Agenda for HCI Theory and Research Journal Article
In: ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., vol. 30, no. 1, 2023, ISSN: 1073-0516.
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Annemiek Veldhuis; Alissa N. Antle; Bernhard Rieke
TangiTeam: Supporting Social Regulation of Learning during Design-Based Learning Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI '23 Association for Computing Machinery, Warsaw, Poland, .
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Jillian L. Warren; Alissa N. Antle; Alexandra Kitson; Alireza Davoodi
In: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 100596, 2023, ISSN: 2212-8689.
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Juan Pablo Hourcade; Meryl Alper; Alissa N. Antle; Gökçe Elif Baykal; Elizabeth Bonsignore; Tamara Clegg; Flannery Hope Currin; Christian Dindler; Eva Eriksson; Jerry Alan Fails; Franca Garzotto; Michail Giannakos; Carina S. Gonzalez; Ole Sejer Iversen; Monica Landoni; Nuria Medina Medina; Chris Quintana; Janet Read; Maria Roussou; Elisa Rubegni; Summer Schmuecker; Suleman Shahid; Cristina Maria Sylla; Greg Walsh; Svetlana Yarosh; Jason Yip
Developing Participatory Methods to Consider the Ethics of Emerging Technologies for Children Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '23 Association for Computing Machinery, Hamburg, Germany, .
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Alexandra Kitson; Alissa N. Antle; Petr Slovak
Co-Designing a Virtual Reality Intervention for Supporting Cognitive Reappraisal Skills Development with Youth Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC '23 Association for Computing Machinery, Chicago, IL, USA, 14–26, .
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2022
Brygg Ullmer; Orit Shaer; Ali Mazalek; Caroline Hummels
Weaving Fire into Form: Aspirations for Tangible and Embodied Interaction Book
1, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2022, ISBN: 9781450397698.
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Ofir Sadka; Alissa Antle
Interactive Technologies for Emotion Regulation Training: A Scoping Review Journal Article
In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, vol. 168, 102906, 2022, ISSN: 1071-5819.
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Yumiko Murai; Alissa N. Antle; Alexandra Kitson; Yves Candau; Azadeh Adibi; Zoe Dao-Kroeker; John Desnoyers-Stewart; Katrien Jacobs
Facilitating critical reflection in online distributed maker workshops: Case studies Journal Article
In: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, vol. 33, 100509, 2022, ISSN: 2212-8689.
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Alissa N. Antle; Juan Pablo Hourcade
Research in Child–Computer Interaction: Provocations and envisioning future directions Journal Article
In: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, vol. 32, 100374, 2022, ISSN: 2212-8689.
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Min Fan; Alissa N. Antle; Zhicong Lu
The Use of Short-Video Mobile Apps in Early Childhood: a Case Study of Parental Perspectives in China Journal Article
In: Early Years, vol. 0, no. 0, 1–15, 2022.
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Alissa N. Antle; Yumiko Murai; Alexandra Kitson; Yves Candau; Zoe Minh-Tam Dao-Kroeker; Azadeh Adibi
“There Are a LOT of Moral Issues with Biowearables” ... Teaching Design Ethics through a Critical Making Biowearable Workshop Proceedings Article
In: Interaction Design and Children, IDC '22 Association for Computing Machinery, Braga, Portugal, 327–340, .
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There has been an increasing focus on teaching youth about design ethics as part of technical literacy. Biowearables are an emerging technology in which devices worn on children's bodies are used to track, monitor and provide feedback about their biological processes. In this paper we describe an online critical making workshop designed to enable students in middle school years to develop technical literacy skills that include reflection on issues related to design ethics. We investigated if and how our workshop enabled eleven youth, aged 12-14, to reflect through processes of making their own biowearable, on potential negative impacts of biowearables on their developing senses of identity, agency, autonomy and authenticity. The workshop elements included facilitated activities using custom created biowearable-tangible kit and ethics cards. Through qualitative coding and thematic analysis of moments of reflection captured with video, chat, and design journals we gathered evidence of the feasibility of promoting critical making as a means to cultivate technical literacy in youth. Our findings suggest the potential of teaching design ethics through critical making workshops and reveal a range of ways that reflection on ethical issues can be supported during making. We interpret our empirical evidence to further explore how workshop elements supported, or failed to support, learning outcomes and generalize our interpretations to propose preliminary guidance about workshop mechanisms that might be used to support ethical reflection during making.
Jillian L. Warren; Alissa N. Antle; Alexandra Kitson; Alireza Davoodi
Lessons Learned and Future Considerations for Designing Remotely Facilitated Co-Design Studies with Children Focused on Socio-Emotional Experiences Proceedings Article
In: Interaction Design and Children, IDC '22 Association for Computing Machinery, Braga, Portugal, 37–49, .
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2021
Alyssa Friend Wise; Alissa N Antle; Jillian L Warren
Design Strategies for Collaborative Learning in Tangible Tabletops: Positive Interdependence and Reflective Pauses Journal Article
In: Interacting with Computers, vol. 33, no. 3, 271–294, 2021, ISSN: 1873-7951.
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Alissa N. Antle; Alexandra Kitson
1,2,3,4 tell me how to grow more: A position paper on children, design ethics and biowearables Journal Article
In: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, vol. 30, 100328, 2021, ISSN: 2212-8689.
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Driven by the rapid pace of technical innovation in biosensing, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and wearable computing, the next generation of smart devices will be worn on-body, eventually becoming implanted. The increasing presence of these new forms of interactive technologies, known as biowearables, in children’s lives poses critical ethical concerns. In this position paper, we take a design ethics perspective to identify and describe four cases of ethical importance associated with biowearables, children, and long-term use. The cases concern potential negative impacts of specific aspects of biowearables on children’s identity formation, the development of autonomy and agency, and what sources of information children turn to for authority about themselves. Drawing on ethical discourse related to emerging technologies and biowearable computing, we present prospective guidance for designers, where it is available. Where guidance is nascent or missing, we propose future research areas that could be addressed. In particular, we propose the importance of teaching children about computer ethics through hands-on critical reflection during design and technology activities. Our results will be of interest to the human–computer interaction community as well as to technology developers, educators, parents and those involved in policy formation around emerging technologies.
Yumiko Murai; Alissa N. Antle; Alexandra Kitson; Yves Candau; Azadeh Adibi; Zoe Dao-Kroeker; John Desnoyers-Stewart; Katrien Jacobs
Facilitating Online Distributed Critical Making: Lessons Learned Proceedings Article
In: FabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2021 - An International Conference on Computing, Design and Making in Education, FabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2021 Association for Computing Machinery, St. Gallen, Switzerland, .
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Uddipana Baishya; Alissa N. Antle; Carman Neustaedter
Exploring Opportunities to Aid Generation of Input Action Ideas for Tangible User Interfaces Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '21 Association for Computing Machinery, Yokohama, Japan, .
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Zoe Minh-Tam Dao-Kroeker; Alexandra Kitson; Alissa N. Antle; Yumiko Murai; Azadeh Adibi
Designing Biotech Ethics Cards: Promoting Critical Making During an Online Workshop with Youth Proceedings Article
In: Interaction Design and Children, IDC '21 Association for Computing Machinery, Athens, Greece, 450–455, .
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There are ethical concerns surrounding how youth interact with biowearable technology and the potential effects it has on their psychological and physiological health. We need to give youth the tools to critically reflect and explore ethical issues surrounding biowearables in order for them to make informed decisions about how they interact with them. To address this, we developed the Biotech Ethics cards as part of a critical making workshop. They are a set of design cards designed to scaffold critical reflection during a critical making workshop where youth prototype a biowearable from a kit. We focus this short paper on the requirements, initial design and revisions we made after studying card use in our workshop. We identified key design elements that are important in the cards and that may generalize to the design of other card sets meant to be integrated into a critical making process.
Alissa N. Antle; Alexandra Kitson; Yumiko Murai; John Desnoyers-Stewart; Yves Candau; Azadeh Adibi; Katrien Jacobs; Zoe Dao-Kroeker
Opportunities and Scaffolds for Critical Reflection on Ethical Issues in an Online After School Biowearable Workshop for Youth Proceedings Article
In: FabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2021 - An International Conference on Computing, Design and Making in Education, FabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2021 Association for Computing Machinery, St. Gallen, Switzerland, .
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2020
Brennan Jones; Anthony Tang; Carman Neustaedter; Alissa N. Antle; Elgin-Skye McLaren
Designing Technology for Shared Communication and Awareness in Wilderness Search and Rescue Book Chapter
In: McCrickard, D. Scott; Jones, Michael; Stelter, Timothy L. (Ed.): HCI Outdoors: Theory, Design, Methods and Applications, 175–194, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2020, ISBN: 978-3-030-45289-6.
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Wilderness search and rescue (WSAR) is a carefully planned and organized team operation, requiring collaboration and information sharing between many volunteers who are spread out across various locations in the outdoors. Workers play a variety of roles, both on the ground and at a command post, and they need information and awareness specific to those roles. In our work, we are interested in understanding how this information is gathered and passed around, how it helps WSAR workers achieve their goals, and what challenges they face in sending and receiving information as well as in maintaining proper awareness. We conducted a study where we interviewed WSAR workers and observed a simulated search. Our findings reveal that WSAR workers face challenges in maintaining a shared mental model when radio and network connectivity are sparse. Our insights reveal opportunities for new communication modalities, such as (but not limited to) video communication, augmented reality, drones, and team-collaboration platforms to provide awareness and make communication and coordination easier remotely across various locations, but particularly between the field teams and Command workers. However, such technologies should also be designed to anticipate gaps in radio reception, and provide opportunities for workers to communicate asynchronously and see relevant `offline' information in a context-dependent manner. We present design ideas that pursue some of these opportunities.
Min Fan; Alissa N. Antle; Jillian L. Warren
In: Journal of Educational Computing Research, vol. 58, no. 6, 1059–1100, 2020.
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Reese Muntean; Alissa N. Antle; Kate Hennessy
Communicating Sustainable Consumption and Production in 360° Video Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS '20 Association for Computing Machinery, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1259–1271, .
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Research at the intersection of technology and sustainability is increasing across disciplines. Virtual reality is one technology used to address social issues, though less work has explored how immersive environments might impact a viewer's impression of complex environmental issues like sustainability.SCP in 360°: Sustainable Consumption and Production in 360 Degrees is a series of 360° videos aiming to make sustainable consumption and production understandable and engaging to a wider audience. In this paper, we describe the context and production of these videos, report on the visitor study conducted during the videos' exhibition, and discuss the specifics of using 360° video for communicating sustainability and the broader implications for other 360° video projects and sustainability-focused interactive media. In contrast to research on empathy in virtual reality, our study suggests that 360° video supports participants in feeling compassion towards the situations viewed and understanding the context and complexity of sustainability solutions.
Min Fan; Alissa N. Antle
An English Language Learning Study with Rural Chinese Children Using an Augmented Reality App Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC '20 Association for Computing Machinery, London, United Kingdom, 385–397, .
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Augmented reality (AR) apps have the potential to support early English learning for children. However, few studies have investigated how children from rural low socio-economic status (SES) schools, who learn English as a foreign language (EFL) used and perceived an AR app in language learning. In this paper, we present an exploratory case study of 11 EFL children and four school teachers from a Chinese rural county who used an AR app (called AR PhonoBlocks), for one week. The goal of the app is to support children to learn the alphabetic principle of English. The key features are overlaid dynamic colour cues on 3D physical letters. We present the results including themes related to children's interactional behaviours and motivations, and rural teachers' feedback on the opportunities and concerns around using an AR app in a rural school context. We suggest design implications and future research directions for designing AR apps to support EFL children from low SES schools in early English learning.
Victor Cheung; Alissa N. Antle; Shubhra Sarker; Min Fan; Jianyu Fan; Philippe Pasquier
Techniques for Augmented-Tangibles on Mobile Devices for Early Childhood Learning Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC '20 Association for Computing Machinery, London, United Kingdom, 589–601, .
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Integrating physical learning materials with mobile device applications may have benefits for early childhood learning. We present three techniques for creating a hybrid tangible-augmented reality (T-AR) enabling technology platform. This platform enables researchers to develop applications that use readily available physical learning materials, such as letters, numbers, symbols or shapes. The techniques are visual marker-based; computer-vision and machine-learning; and capacitive touches. We describe details of implementation and demonstrate these techniques through a use case of a reading tablet app that uses wooden/plastic letters for input and augmented output. Our comparative analysis revealed that the machine-learning technique most flexibly sensed different physical letter sets but had variable accuracy impacted by lighting and tracking lag at this time. Lastly, we demonstrate how this enabling technology can be generalized to a variety of early learning apps through a second use case with physical numbers.
Victor Cheung; Alissa N. Antle
Tangible Interfaces and Interactions in Sci-Fi Movies: A Glimpse at the Possible Future of TUIs through Fictional Tangible Systems Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI '20 Association for Computing Machinery, Sydney NSW, Australia, 393–401, .
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Science-Fiction (Sci-Fi) movies have long been a frontier in showcasing futuristic computer interfaces and their associated interactions. Unconstrained by technological limitations, they are free to depict the most imaginative systems, including augmenting objects attributes that are not yet possible in reality. We present a case study on Sci-Fi movies where tangible objects are part of these systems, and examine how they illustrate Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) concepts. We provide three examples of tangible systems and one that deviates considerably (holographic system), and analyze them using a well-established interaction model (MCRpd). We found that TUIs in movies exhibit various levels of the model's characteristics and demonstrate an inclusive and diverse context through combining interaction modalities and catering to audience needs. We argue that these aspects provide valuable lessons and implications in designing future TUIs and hope to broaden the design space by initiating discussions on the fascinating worlds in Sci-Fi movies.
Alissa Antle; Juan Pablo Hourcade; Paulo Blikstein; Jerry Alan Fails; Franca Garzotto; Ole Sejer Iversen; Panos Markopoulos; Glenda Revelle
Child-Computer Interaction SIG: Looking Forward After 18 Years Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '20 Association for Computing Machinery, Honolulu, HI, USA, 1–4, .
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This SIG will provide child-computer interaction researchers and practitioners an opportunity to discuss future directions for the field after 18 years of Interaction Design and Children conferences. Topics for discussion include interdisciplinarity, theory and rigor, impact, emerging areas of research, and ethics.
Ofir Sadka; Alissa Antle
Interactive Technologies for Emotion-Regulation Training: Opportunities and Challenges Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '20 Association for Computing Machinery, Honolulu, HI, USA, 1–12, .
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Emotion regulation (ER) is foundational to mental health and well-being. In the last ten years, there has been an increasing focus on this use of interactive technologies to support ER training in a variety of contexts. However, work has been done by researchers from diverse fields, and no cohesive research agenda exists that explicates how and why interactive technologies may benefit ER training. To address this gap, this paper presents the initial results of a descriptive review of 38 peer-reviewed papers on this topic. Qualitative analysis revealed four opportunity themes where interactive technologies appear to provide unique benefits. The analysis also revealed three challenge themes where design guidance, particularly around emotion representation, is ambiguous or underspecified. Based on our findings, we propose future research in these thematic areas; we also propose intersectional themes and underexplored areas that researchers and designers may find productive to explore.
2019
Mandy Chen; Ronald G. Barr; Erica Miller; Nichole Fairbrother; Alissa Antle; Rollin Brant
When soothing succeeds: Simulating a risk for repeated shaking in abusive head trauma in infants Journal Article
In: Infant Behavior and Development, vol. 56, 101246, 2019, ISSN: 0163-6383, (The infant simulator: A novel approach for the measurement of parenting).
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Purpose To investigate the observation that perpetrators of abusive head trauma engage in repeated shakings because shaking “works” to quiet the infant. Methods Sixty first-time parent couples individually cared for a programmable model infant in two consecutive 7-min trials. After six minutes of consolable followed by inconsolable crying, parents selected one of three soothing techniques. For trial one, parents were randomized to a “Successful” or “Failed” Soothing Condition. Whether the soothing technique was repeated after trial two was determined by the study investigators. Parents rated their frustration after each trial. Results As hypothesized, parents were more likely to repeat a soothing technique that “worked” in trial one. Compared to fathers, mothers reported more frustration when soothing failed. Conclusions That caregivers were more likely to repeat a successful soothing technique converges with perpetrator confessions that crying cessation after shaking may be a reason why shaking is used repeatedly in response to crying.
Alissa N. Antle; Elgin-Skye McLaren; Holly Fiedler; Naomi Johnson
Evaluating the Impact of a Mobile Neurofeedback App for Young Children at School and Home Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '19 Association for Computing Machinery, Glasgow, Scotland Uk, 1–13, .
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Alissa N. Antle; Elgin Skye McLaren; Holly Fiedler; Naomi Johnson
Design for Mental Health: How Socio-Technological Processes Mediate Outcome Measures in a Field Study of a Wearable Anxiety App Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI '19 Association for Computing Machinery, Tempe, Arizona, USA, 87–96, .
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Uddipana Baishya; Alissa N. Antle; Elgin-Skye McLaren
Idea Bits: A Tangible Design Tool to Aid Idea Generation for Tangible Manipulation Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '19 Association for Computing Machinery, Glasgow, Scotland Uk, 1–6, .
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Md Nafiz Hasan Khan; Carman Neustaedter; Alissa Antle
Flight Chair: An Interactive Chair for Controlling Emergency Service Drones Bachelor Thesis
2019.
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2018
Alissa N. Antle; Leslie Chesick; Elgin-Skye Mclaren
Opening up the Design Space of Neurofeedback Brain--Computer Interfaces for Children Journal Article
In: ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., vol. 24, no. 6, 2018, ISSN: 1073-0516.
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abstract = {Brain--computer interface applications (BCIs) utilizing neurofeedback (NF) can make invisible brain states visible in real time. Learning to recognize, modify, and regulate brain states is critical to all children's development and can improve learning, and emotional and mental health outcomes. How can we design usable and effective NF BCIs that help children learn and practice brain state self-regulation? Our contribution is a list of challenges for this emerging design space and a conceptual framework that addresses those challenges. The framework is composed of five interrelated strong concepts that we adapted from other design spaces. We derived the concepts reflectively, theoretically, and empirically through a design research process in which we created and evaluated a NF BCI, called Mind-Full, designed to help children living in Nepal who had suffered from complex trauma learn to self-regulate anxiety and attention. We add rigor to our derivation methodology by horizontally and vertically grounding our concepts, that is, relating them to similar concepts in the literature and instantiations in other artifacts. We illustrate the generative power of the concepts and the inter-relationships between them through the description of two new NF BCIs we created using the framework for urban and indigenous children with anxiety and attentional challenges. We then show the versatility of our framework by describing how it inspired and informed the conceptual design of three NF BCIs for different types of self-regulation: selective attention and working memory, pain management, and depression. Last, we discuss the contestability, defensibility, and substantiveness of our conceptual framework in order to ensure rigor in our research design process. Our contribution is a rigorously derived design framework that opens up this new and emerging design space of NF BCI's for children for other researchers and designers.},
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Min Fan; Alissa N. Antle; Maureen Hoskyn; Carman Neustaedter
A design case study of a tangible system supporting young English language learners Journal Article
In: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, vol. 18, 67–78, 2018, ISSN: 2212-8689.
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Many researchers have suggested that tangible user interfaces (TUIs) have the potential to support learning for children. While several tangible reading systems have been developed for children, few systems have been designed that explicitly target the first stage of reading where many children struggle, which is the alphabetic principle (letter-sound correspondences). We present a tangible reading system called PhonoBlocks that supports children learning English letter-sound correspondences. PhonoBlocks uses 3D tangible letters that change colour to draw attention to the moment that adding other letters changes the sounds. We then present a mixed-methods case study with ten Mandarin-speaking children in China using our system. Results showed that the Chinese children achieved significant learning gains relative to their baseline performance after PhonoBlocks instruction. The results also point to design features of our system that enabled behaviours that are correlated with learning. We compare the results of this study to a different study with eight at-risk monolingual English-speaking children in Canada using PhonoBlocks in learning to read and spell. By comparing results, we generalize and make three recommendations for designing tangible reading systems for all children who must learn the alphabetic principle. We also discuss three recommendations that are specifically for children learning English as a foreign language.
Francesco Cafaro; Leilah Blakeney Lyons; Alissa Nicole Antle
Framed Guessability: Improving the Discoverability of Gestures and Body Movements for Full-Body Interaction Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018.
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Punyashlok Dash; Carman Neustaedter; Alissa N. Antle
Covert-Glass: A Wearable That Enables Surreptitious 911 Video Calling Proceedings Article
In: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW '18 Association for Computing Machinery, Jersey City, NJ, USA, 185–188, .
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abstract = {In the future, emergency calls to the number 9cscwp1 in North America will include the ability to make video calls with 9cscwp1 call centers yet little is known about how to design such technologies, so they map to people's real emergency needs. We explore this design space by investigating systems that can allow 9cscwp1 callers to stream a surreptitious video call of an assailant. This paper explores a specific scenario where the person trapped may not be in direct danger from the assailant but is still present in the vicinity. We introduce -Covert-Glass', technology-enhanced glasses that aid callers to conduct a surreptitious 9cscwp1 video call. The glasses guide a person to control the direction of his/her phone camera based on the 9cscwp1 operator's input. 9cscwp1 call takers send remote signals to the user's device and these appear as haptic vibrations on either side of the glasses.},
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In the future, emergency calls to the number 9cscwp1 in North America will include the ability to make video calls with 9cscwp1 call centers yet little is known about how to design such technologies, so they map to people's real emergency needs. We explore this design space by investigating systems that can allow 9cscwp1 callers to stream a surreptitious video call of an assailant. This paper explores a specific scenario where the person trapped may not be in direct danger from the assailant but is still present in the vicinity. We introduce -Covert-Glass', technology-enhanced glasses that aid callers to conduct a surreptitious 9cscwp1 video call. The glasses guide a person to control the direction of his/her phone camera based on the 9cscwp1 operator's input. 9cscwp1 call takers send remote signals to the user's device and these appear as haptic vibrations on either side of the glasses.
Min Fan; Uddipana Baishya; Elgin-Skye Mclaren; Alissa N. Antle; Shubhra Sarker; Amal Vincent
Block Talks: A Tangible and Augmented Reality Toolkit for Children to Learn Sentence Construction Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '18 Association for Computing Machinery, Montreal QC, Canada, 1–6, .
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abstract = {The Block Talks toolkit combines the educational potential of tangible computing and augmented reality (AR) technologies to help children learn English sentence construction. Although examples of tangible AR reading systems for children currently exist, few focus specifically on learning sentence structure. Block Talks was developed using ordinary teaching supplies including letter tiles and blocks that can be manipulated to form words and sentences. A companion app allows children to scan these sentences to receive audio and AR feedback. Block Talks takes advantage of colour cues to draw children's attention to sentence structure patterns. This paper outlines existing tangible and AR systems for literacy learning, details the Block Talks design rationale, and concludes with a discussion of the advantages of using a combined tangible and AR approach for teaching sentence construction.},
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The Block Talks toolkit combines the educational potential of tangible computing and augmented reality (AR) technologies to help children learn English sentence construction. Although examples of tangible AR reading systems for children currently exist, few focus specifically on learning sentence structure. Block Talks was developed using ordinary teaching supplies including letter tiles and blocks that can be manipulated to form words and sentences. A companion app allows children to scan these sentences to receive audio and AR feedback. Block Talks takes advantage of colour cues to draw children's attention to sentence structure patterns. This paper outlines existing tangible and AR systems for literacy learning, details the Block Talks design rationale, and concludes with a discussion of the advantages of using a combined tangible and AR approach for teaching sentence construction.