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Scratch Nodes: Coding Outdoor Play Experiences to enhance Social-Physical Interaction

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IDC '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 601 - 607

https://doi.org/10.1145/3078072.3084331

Published: 27 June 2017 Publication History

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We present the initial design process of Scratch Nodes, a sensor-based prototype designed to augment children's social-physical outdoor play. Scratch Nodes has two main components: a hardware device and a tablet-based coding environment. The prototype was designed for 8-12 year old children with the goal of encouraging physical play, social interaction, and "changing the rules" through coding. We extend prior work in the Heads-up Games (HUG) domain by adding a real-time coding environment that directly controls the hardware device, empowering children to change the game's rules in real-time. We argue that the combination of physical play, social interaction, and coding strikes the right balance between the societal need to increase outdoor play & enhance computational thinking skills on one hand and children's need to play, measure, and define their own rules on the other. We present our initial design and implementation process as well as our insights from a preliminary evaluation with six children who tested the prototype.

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DOI:10.1145/3078072

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