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This paper presents Robots for Distant Musicians (RFDM), a project developed as part of a residency at the MICA Game Lab in Baltimore, Maryland in 2020-21. A set of musically responsive robots were built that could be accessed through existing online ...

We present Project IRL (In Real Life), a suite of five mobile apps we created to explore novel ways of supporting in-person social interactions with augmented reality. In recent years, the tone of public discourse surrounding digital technology has ...

Games have been used extensively to study human behavior. Researchers in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI) are becoming more aware of the importance of designing compelling and playful games to study interrelationships among players. Despite ...

Many conversational agents (CAs) are developed to answer users' questions in a specialized domain. In everyday use of CAs, user experience may extend beyond satisfying information needs to the enjoyment of conversations with CAs, some of which represent ...

This paper explores and illuminates the work in progress of the 'Sound of Colour', an interactive musical installation, used to introduce musical concepts to children. Participants work in a collaborative manner to throw, roll, spin and bounce, coloured ...

We propose to design playful solutions to help young people better understand the consequences of their use of language in a community of peers. Our system, CARE, will analyse the content of their messages and extract the emotions they are charged with, ...

Playful environments are increasingly being used for conducting research. This makes a game platform for authoring research studies and teaching about how to conduct research a necessary progression. In this paper, we discuss Mad Science, a playful ...

Dranimate is an interactive animation system that allows users to rapidly and intuitively rig and control animations based on a still image or drawing using hand gestures. Dranimate combines two complementary methods of shape manipulation: bone-joint-...

Organizers regularly want to understand the experiences of event goers and typically use survey methods, with researchers and clipboards. However, gathering opinions in such ways is difficult to do without disrupting the event goers' experience. In ...

Gathering public opinions, such as surveys, at events typically requires approaching people in situ, but this can disrupt the positive experience they are having and can result in very low response rates. As an alternative approach, we present the ...

In this paper I present Mobile Stories, a design-led project that explored ways of playfully motivating and engaging theatre audiences in their journey before the premiere of a theatrical play. The project used the art of storytelling and mobile ...

Measuring children's behaviors and experiences has been one of the core interests of the field of Child-Computer Interaction. However, maintaining children's engagement in the evaluation process is one of the challenges that researchers need to meet. In ...

In this paper we investigate how technologies can be designed to support learning in preparatory classrooms by augmenting existing learning objects. By following an iterative interaction design process of working with teachers and children within the ...

In this paper we describe the design process of an interactive accessory to play anywhere and anytime while encouraging free-play and practice social skills. We explain the design process, the resulting conceptual design of FeetUp and the preliminary ...

This paper describes, ReacTickles Global, an exploratory project that will investigate the potential of mobile and Internet technologies to encourage creativity and social interaction for young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. The paper will ...

Participatory design methods are increasingly used to investigate design ideas for new forms of information and communication technologies. We present a methodological variation of a user-centered idea generation, with children using a playful setting in ...

We present a methodological variation of cultural probing called playful probing. In playful probing games are developed according to the area investigated, to enhance participants' involvement in the studies. The games are used as additional probing ...