Interactive Soft Toys for Infants and Toddlers – Design Recommendations for Age-appropriate Play

Michaela Honauer; Preetha Moorthy; Eva Hornecker

doi:10.1145/3311350.3347147

Interactive Soft Toys for Infants and Toddlers – Design Recommendations for Age-appropriate Play

Michaela Honauer, Preetha Moorthy, Eva Hornecker

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Abstract

Very young children (below three) are characterized by sensory-motor exploration and pre-cognitive development. There is little work on interactive toys for this age group. This raises the question of what interactions are developmentally appropriate at this age. We here propose recommendations for designing meaningful interactive toys, gained from designing an interactive soft (textile) book prototype, testing it with children and discussion of observations with parents, as well as three expert interviews. Recommendations concern what types of interactions to implement (transparent and one-step), inviting full-body activity and exploration with all senses, what kind of effects to generate (appropriate for children’s abilities, being predictable, with clear relation to real-world experiences, but also accounting for the needs of caregivers), and the importance of allowing for shared experience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI PLAY '19
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Editors	Joan Arnedo
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	265-276
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-6688-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3311350.3347147
Publication status	Published - 17 Oct 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	6th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2019 - Poblenou Campus, Barcelona, Spain Duration: 22 Oct 2019 → 25 Oct 2019 Conference number: 6 https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/

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Conference	6th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2019
Abbreviated title	CHI PLAY 2019
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	22/10/19 → 25/10/19
Internet address	https://chiplay.acm.org/2019/

Keywords

E-textiles
Early development
Quiet book
Soft book
n/a OA procedure

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Honauer, M, Moorthy, P & Hornecker, E 2019, Interactive Soft Toys for Infants and Toddlers – Design Recommendations for Age-appropriate Play. in J Arnedo (ed.), CHI PLAY '19: Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, pp. 265-276, 6th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2019, Barcelona, Spain, 22/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311350.3347147

Interactive Soft Toys for Infants and Toddlers – Design Recommendations for Age-appropriate Play. / Honauer, Michaela; Moorthy, Preetha; Hornecker, Eva.
CHI PLAY '19: Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. ed. / Joan Arnedo. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 265-276.

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