UbiPlay: an interactive playground and visual programming tools for children

Jussi Mattila; Antti Väätänen

doi:10.1145/1139073.1139106

UbiPlay: an interactive playground and visual programming tools for children

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Abstract

Children develop important skills at playgrounds. Physical play promotes health and reacting to other children establishes social behavior patterns. By augmenting playground elements with sensor technology, video displays, and computer software, we pursued to take the experience further. This paper describes what was achieved; UbiPlay, a technology platform for programmable interactive playgrounds. UbiPlay allows children to create and play games in interactive playground environments. We present a play space built using the technology and results from qualitative evaluations, performed with 44 school children between the ages of 10 and 12. Results indicate that end-user programmable playgrounds like ours can provide much stimulus and excitement for children.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IDC '06: Proceeding of the 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery ACM
Pages	129-136
ISBN (Print)	1-59593-316-6, 978-1-4503-7808-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1139073.1139106
Publication status	Published - 2006
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '06 - Tampere, Finland Duration: 7 Jun 2006 → 9 Jun 2006

Conference

Conference	Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '06
Abbreviated title	IDC '06
Country	Finland
City	Tampere
Period	7/06/06 → 9/06/06

Keywords

children
interactive environments
playgrounds
visual programming environments

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Mattila, J., & Väätänen, A. (2006). UbiPlay: an interactive playground and visual programming tools for children. In IDC '06: Proceeding of the 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 129-136). Association for Computing Machinery ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1139073.1139106

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Mattila, J & Väätänen, A 2006, UbiPlay: an interactive playground and visual programming tools for children. in IDC '06: Proceeding of the 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children. Association for Computing Machinery ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 129-136, Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '06, Tampere, Finland, 7/06/06. https://doi.org/10.1145/1139073.1139106

UbiPlay: an interactive playground and visual programming tools for children. / Mattila, Jussi; Väätänen, Antti.

IDC '06: Proceeding of the 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery ACM, 2006. p. 129-136.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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