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Collaborative play not only provides entertainment but also nurtures connections and strengthens community ties. In family and intergenerational contexts, collaborative activities and play can engage family members in quality conversations and meaningful ...

Engagement in Black community activism allows Black adults to resist societal racism. Yet if interpersonal positive online racial experiences may impact self-reported engagement in Black community activism differently by racial ...

• Black adults engage in activism after experiencing online racism but the role of positive online experiences is unclear.

Augmented reality (AR) headsets are being utilized in different task-based domains (e.g., healthcare, education) for both adults and children. However, prior work has mainly examined the applicability of AR headsets instead of how to design the visual ...

The primary purpose of the current study is to systematically investigate whether distinct dimensions of personality traits (i.e., extraversion, neuroticism and openness to experience) and demographic variables could predict WeChat use. Based on a web-...

Multi-touch spherical displays that enable groups of people to collaboratively interact are increasingly being used in informal learning settings such as museums. Prior research on large flatscreen displays has examined group collaboration patterns in ...

Play presents a popular pastime for all humans, though not all humans play alike. Subsequently, Human–Computer Interaction Games research is increasingly concerned with the development of games that serve neurodivergent¹ players. In a critical review of ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a long-standing mental condition characterized by hindered mental growth and development and is a lifelong disability for the majority of affected individuals. In 2018, 2-3% of children in the USA have been diagnosed ...

Interactive spherical displays offer numerous opportunities for engagement and education in public settings. Prior work established that users' touch-gesture patterns on spherical displays differ from those on flatscreen tabletops, and speculated that ...

In recent years, Ecuador has made great progress in integrating new technologies to all its citizens. This research analyzes the evolution of the incorporation of the different smart devices and the uses they make of them, from 2015 to 2019. At the same ...

Interactive spherical displays offer unique opportunities for engagement in public spaces. Research on flatscreen tabletop displays has mapped the gesture design space and compared gestures created by adults and children. However, it is not clear if the ...

We took a social robot Pepper to a shopping mall for one day to see what kind of initial responses it draws from people. We observed that the robot was quickly surrounded by children when there were others-especially adults-interacting with it. The ...

In this paper, we present a design framework for ADHD assistive technologies that aims to give researchers grounding in the background research on the condition, to provide a lingua franca, and to highlight potential research directions for HCI ...

Much of the experience of videogame players remains hidden. This paper presents an empirical study that assesses the experience of 50 participants (i.e. 25 children and 25 adults) during brain games play. Results from the empirical study show a number ...

The ability of auditory attention can be described as filtering distinct sounds to identify relevant information in environments where multiple sound sources are active simultaneously. There are some techniques to detect and training this ability, but ...

The Internet is increasingly used by young children for all kinds of purposes. Nonetheless, there are not many resources especially designed for children on the Internet and most of the content online is designed for grown-up users. This situation is ...

This study attempted to determine differences in cellular telephone use according to gender and student-status. The impetus for the study comes from the uses and gratifications theory, which has traditionally been used to investigate how audiences use ...

The Internet has made it possible to incorporate adult mentors in the classroom in ways that it would have been difficult or impossible to do previously. As we move forward with such projects, it is important for us to consider what these adults ...

Summary form only given. The cognitive literature has debated at some length the rival merits of models in which there are associationist connections and implicit rules and models in which there are explicit, syntactically structured rules. Human ...