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Metadesigning interactive outdoor games for children: a case study.

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The growth of tangible and embodied interfaces has lead them to expand from research labs to everyday life. This has raised the question of enduser development and the user requirements for an environment supporting development. This paper researches the user requirements for a toolkit to create interactive outdoor games for children, by adults with no programming skills. We present a case study in which adults designed such games and tested them with children. For the design and testing of the games, RaPIDO, a platform specially designed for prototyping interactive technology, was used. Based on this experience we identify requirements for a toolkit to support the creation of interactive outdoor games.

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    IDC '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children
    June 2014
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    1. children
    2. enduser development
    3. interactive outdoor games
    4. metadesign

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