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From Smart Homes to Smart Kids: Design Research for CataKit

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Sheriff, Aviv Sadan, Rona Keats, Yasmin Zuckerman, Oren
Abstract	This paper presents the design research process of CataKit, a construction kit for children inspired by catapults, Rube-Goldberg chain reaction machines, and mechanical automata. We set out to promote children's initiative, positive risk-taking, and procedural thinking, all in the context of their bedrooms. Our motivation is to contrast the rising smart home movement in industry, which we fear may decrease children's initiative if children's bedrooms become too automated. We describe our design research process with six children followed by a low fidelity prototype design and evaluation. We present the qualitative analysis of children's reactions to the prototype and show support for our initial goals: encourage systematic exploration of mechanical concepts and initiative over automation. We hope that construction kits like Catakit will empower children to develop curiosity about the mechanical world around them, to think about risk taking as a potentially positive experience, and to think more critically about initiative in the smart home era.
Starting Page	159
Ending Page	169
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450349215
DOI	10.1145/3078072.3079729
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2017-06-27
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Learning Construction kit Children computational thinking Positive risk-taking
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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