Designing for children's mobile storytelling
Venue
The International Journal of Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, vol. Special Issue: Mobile Interaction Design and Children (2010), pp. 19-36
Publication Year
2010
Authors
Sonia Franckel, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Allison Druin
BibTeX
Abstract
Mobile technologies offer novel opportunities for children to express themselves
in-context, seamlessly, without disrupting the flow of their formal learning
activities or informal play. Most contemporary mobile devices are equipped with
multimedia support that can be used to create multimodal stories that represent the
rich life narratives children experience, imagine, and want to share. The authors
investigated these issues over a 9-month series of participatory design sessions in
the Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) at the University of Maryland. In this
article, the authors describe their work with children in designing mobile tools
for story creation and collaboration. Throughout this work, they asked the
following questions: What stories do children want to tell, and how do they want to
convey them in a mobile context? The findings suggest the need for mobile
technology-based applications that support children’s unique storytelling habits,
particularly interruptability and multimodality.
