GiggleBat: Enhancing Playing and Outdoor Culture in Australian Children

This paper reports on an ongoing design-based research project aiming to improve the physical and social development of children between the ages of 3-5 with tangible interactive sport based play. The project pursues design, evaluation and implementation of an interactive sports toy: GiggleBat that merges benefits of co-design, HCI and user-centred design (assisted by Arduino sensor technology and 3D Prototyping), together with current Australian playing and sporting culture. The final add-on product serves from established rules and adds value to games of cricket, and potentially tennis and golf by enhancing prompting, information and feedback. We report on our design experience of GiggleBat and evaluation results from a series of focus groups with parents and an observation session with children. We conclude with a future road map for the product.

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Omar Mubin

Rahat Iqbal

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 1-10

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[0001]School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics

Western Sydney University

Australia

[0002]School of Computing, Electronics and Maths, Coventry University

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UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.33

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

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Conference number: 30

Conference location: Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

Conference date: 11 - 15 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Fusion

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[1] J.E. AnlauffA. WeitnauerS. LehnhardtS. SchirmerK. ZeheTonekaboni 2010 A method for outdoor skateboarding video games Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology 40 44 ACM

[2] P. AttewellJ. BattleB. Suazo-Garcia 2003 Computers and young children: Social benefit or social problem? Social forces 82 1 277 296

[3] C. Australia 2015 Census results reveal cricket’s changing face

[4] T. AvontuurR. de JongE. BrinkY. FlorackI. SoteP. Markopoulos 2014 Play it our way: customization of game rules in children’s interactive outdoor games Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children 95 104 ACM

[5] T. BekkerJ. SturmR. WesselinkB. GroenendaalB. Eggen 2008 Interactive play objects and the effects of open-ended play on social interaction and fun Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology 389 392 ACM

[6] T. M. BekkerB. H. Eggen 2008 Designing for children’s physical play CHI’08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems 2871 2876 ACM

[7] A. BogdanovychC. Stanton 2015 A novel approach to sports oriented video games with real-time motion streaming Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems EICS ’15 64 73 ACM

[8] J. CassellK. Ryokai 2001 Making space for voice: Technologies to support childrens fantasy and storytelling Personal and ubiquitous computing 5 3 169 190

[9] M. A. ChaseM. Machida 2011 The role of sport as a social status determinant for children: Thirty years later Research quarterly for exercise andsport 82 4 731 739

[10] A. J. Daley 2009 Can exergaming contribute to improving physical activity levels and health outcomes in children? Pediatrics 124 2 763 771

[11] R. De OliveiraN. Oliver 2008 Triplebeat: enhancing exercise performance with persuasion Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services 255 264 ACM

[12] W. H. DietzS. L. Gortmaker 2001 Preventing obesity in children and adolescents 1 Annual review of public health 22 1 337 353

[13] A. Druin 2002 The role of children in the design of new technology Behaviour and information technology 21 1 1 25

[14] K. HendrixG. YangD. van de MortelT. TijsP. Markopoulos 2008 Designing a head-up game for children Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction-Volume 1 45 53 British Computer Society

[15] R. S. HenriqueA. H. RéD. F. StoddenJ. FransenC. M. CamposD. R. QueirozM. T. Cattuzzo 2015 Association between sports participation, motor competence and weight status: A longitudinal study Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

[16] M. M. JensenM. K. RasmussenK. Grønbæk 2013 Exploring opponent formats Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2013 48 60 Springer

[17] F. LuF. TianY. JiangX. CaoW. LuoG. LiX. ZhangG. DaiH. Wang 2011 Shadowstory: creative and collaborative digital storytelling inspired by cultural heritage Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 1919 1928 ACM

[18] A. MacLeanR. M. YoungV. M. BellottiT. P Moran 1991 Questions, options, and criteria: Elements of design space analysis Human – computer interaction 6 (3-4) 201 250

[19] O. MubinD. RutishauserM. NovoaD. WainohuS. Shahid 2015 Interactive toys in the home: A parents perspective Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015 573 577 Springer

[20] O. MubinL. VinkP OosterwijkA. Al MahmudS. Shahid 2013 Floffy: Designing an outdoor robot for children Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013 563 570 Springer

[21] F. MuellerR. A. KhotA. D. ChathamS. PijnappelC. C. ToprakJ. Marshall 2013 Hci with sports CHI’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2509 2512 ACM

[22] F. MuellerM. Muirhead 2015 Jogging with a quadcopter Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023 2032 ACM

[23] F. F. MuellerJ. MarshallR. A. KhotS. NylanderJ. Tholander 2015 Understanding sports-hci by going jogging at chi Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems 869 872 ACM

[24] J. NitzS. KuysR. IslesS. Fu 2010 Is the wii fit a new-generation tool for improving balance, health and well-being? a pilot study Climacteric 13 5 487 491

[25] of Health, D. and Ageing 2010 Children who are overweight or obese Australian Bureau of Statistics 1301

[26] T. S. OldsG. R. TomkinsonK. E. FerrarC. A. Maher 2010 Trends in the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in australia between 1985 and 2008 International journal of obesity 34 1 57 66

[27] K. OverbeekeC. Hummels 2013 Industrial design The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction 2nd Ed..

[28] S. PapertI. Harel 1991 Situating constructionism Constructionism 36 1 11

[29] V. PriorD. Glaser 2006 Understanding attachment and attachment disorders: Theory, evidence and practice Jessica Kingsley Publishers

[30] R. D. Putnam 2001 Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community Simon and Schuster

[31] B. RobinsE. FerrariK. Dautenhahn 2008 Developing scenarios for robot assisted play Robot and Human Interactive Communication 2008 RO-MAN 2008 The 17th IEEE International Symposium on 180 186 IEEE

[32] D. Rowe 2013 Sport: scandal, gender and the nation Institute for Culture and Society Occasional Paper Series 4 3 1 17

[33] I. SouteP. MarkopoulosR. Magielse 2010 Head up games: combining the best of both worlds by merging traditional and digital play Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 14 5 435 444

[34] J. SturmR. TiebenM. DeenT. BekkerB. Schouten 2011 Playfit: Designing playful activity interventions for teenagers Proceedings of DIGRA 14 17

[35] E. ToeringI. SouteP. Markopoulos 2010 Rule customization in head-up games Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Fun and Games 144 148 ACM

[36] C. C. ToprakJ. PlattF. Mueller 2012 Bubble popper: considering body contact in games Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Fun and Games 97 100 ACM

[37] T. ToscosA. FaberS. AnM. P. Gandhi 2006 Chick clique: persuasive technology to motivate teenage girls to exercise CHI’06 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems 1873 1878 ACM

[38] L. S. VygotskyJ. Wollock 1997 The Collected Works of LS Vygotsky: Problems of the theory and history of psychology 3 Springer Science & Business Media

[39] M. WakeP. HardyL. CanterfordM. SawyerJ. Carlin 2007 Overweight, obesity and girth of australian preschoolers: prevalence and socio-economic correlates International journal of obesity 31 7 1044 1051

[40] J. J. WoodB. D. McLeodM. SigmanW.-C. HwangB. C. Chu 2003 Parenting and childhood anxiety: Theory, empirical findings, and future directions Journal of child psychology and psychiatry 44 1 134 151

[41] D. ZakusJ. SkinnerA. Edwards 2009 Social capital in australian sport Sport in society 12 7 986 998

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