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Interaction design project encouraging contact between elderly and children

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Irina Bjerkvold,

Sabina Niewiadomska,

Giovanni Pignoni,

Yijie ZhouAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '18: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 465 - 470

https://doi.org/10.1145/3202185.3210755

Published: 19 June 2018 Publication History

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Contact and bonding between grandparents and grandchild might not be easy to achieve, but still, both parts might benefit from communicating with each other, sharing experiences.

This paper describes a student project, still under development, designed to facilitate and differentiate connection between senior citizens and children. The proposed solution consists of two prototypes (a birdhouse and a music board) which were built with the open source platform of Arduino and Processing, both of them are connected to the theme of nature and birdwatching.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3616961.3616989

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IDC '18: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children

June 2018

789 pages

ISBN:9781450351522

DOI:10.1145/3202185

Conference Chairs:
Michail N. Giannakos
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
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Letizia Jaccheri
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
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Monica Divitini
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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June 19 - 22, 2018

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Tikkanen RIivari N(2023)Nature and Natural Rhythm in the Digital World - What's in It for Child–Computer Interaction?: A narrative literature review and an initial design frameworkProceedings of the 26th International Academic Mindtrek Conference10.1145/3616961.3616989(119-132)Online publication date: 3-Oct-2023
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