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Designing for Outdoor Play

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Jaz Hee-jeong Choi,

Marti LouwAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: W18, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3299026

Published: 02 May 2019 Publication History

Abstract

There is widespread societal concern regarding the reduction in the amount of time that we all spend playing outdoors. Outdoor play can be important for our social and physical well-being and moreover helps us to connect to space, place and environment. Of course, the CHI community continues to explore play across many contexts; however, specifically designing for outdoor play remains underexplored. This workshop aims to bring together those who are interested in technological, social and design aspects of outdoor play for all ages. We will use participants' insights, energies and expertise to explore the challenges and focus on how we can build a community to share innovative designs, generate knowledge and make actionable research in this context.

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Designing for Outdoor Play
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2019

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ISBN:9781450359719

DOI:10.1145/3290607

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University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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University College London, UK
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University of Melbourne, Australia

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Hemmert FBell AGlöß MKlaiß MKurm Kvan der Linde INeumann KOrak GSommer KDui TWagner PWeier BZalesak MPreim BNürnberger AHansen C(2020)Designing human-god interfacesProceedings of Mensch und Computer 202010.1145/3404983.3409997(393-397)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3404983.3409997
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