TY - GEN
T1 - Playscapes
T2 - 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2016
AU - Boon, Boudewijn
AU - Van Der Net, Janjaap
AU - Rozendaal, Marco
AU - Stappers, Pieter Jan
AU - Van Den Heuvel-Eibrink, Marry M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/6/21
Y1 - 2016/6/21
N2 - In early childhood, children develop motor skills that form the basis of their future physical activities. This development can stagnate when children face long-term hospitalization due to injury or disease. Most interventions to facilitate their physical development are built on exercise and structured play, and have ignored the value of spontaneous and unstructured play. For this reason, we introduce 'Playscapes' as a design perspective on young children's physical play. Playscapes is inspired by outdoor play, and accounts for three qualities: bodily play, dispersed play and free play. These qualities can help interaction designers to generate designs that help children playfully develop physical competence. The design perspective is used for developing two design interventions specifically for children with cancer. To point out the merits of Playscapes, the design interventions are compared with two exercise-based interventions. Finally, challenges and future steps are discussed for further developing Playscapes.
AB - In early childhood, children develop motor skills that form the basis of their future physical activities. This development can stagnate when children face long-term hospitalization due to injury or disease. Most interventions to facilitate their physical development are built on exercise and structured play, and have ignored the value of spontaneous and unstructured play. For this reason, we introduce 'Playscapes' as a design perspective on young children's physical play. Playscapes is inspired by outdoor play, and accounts for three qualities: bodily play, dispersed play and free play. These qualities can help interaction designers to generate designs that help children playfully develop physical competence. The design perspective is used for developing two design interventions specifically for children with cancer. To point out the merits of Playscapes, the design interventions are compared with two exercise-based interventions. Finally, challenges and future steps are discussed for further developing Playscapes.
KW - Design for play
KW - Exergames
KW - Exertion interfaces
KW - Physical activity
KW - Rehabilitation
KW - Spatial interaction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84985995574&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2930674.2930713
DO - 10.1145/2930674.2930713
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84985995574
T3 - Proceedings of IDC 2016 - The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
SP - 181
EP - 189
BT - Proceedings of IDC 2016 - The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 21 June 2016 through 24 June 2016
ER -