Community Workshop - July 11, Designing Children's Engagement in Whole Body Interaction Environments

[Jonathan Hung]

Hello inclusive design community,

There will be a Community Workshop on Tuesday July 11, 2pm to 4pm EDT. All who are interested are free to attend.

Meeting Details
Date: Tuesday July 11, 2023
Time: 2pm to 4pm EDT
Zoom Meeting Link: https://ocadu.zoom.us/j/82743278568?pwd=KzQ0Nkc2R1lSYllhVFk1d1lQUDJSdz09

Topic:  Designing for Young children's Engagement in Whole Body Interaction Environments

Description:
Whole body interaction environments are increasingly common in informal learning settings, including museums. Empirical research demonstrates that such environments can afford children opportunities to engage in learning with embodied metaphors, and play. However, less research has investigated young children's social interaction in such settings. This talk presents a design research approach and findings from a study that investigated young children's social interaction in whole body interaction environments. Findings demonstrate that young children engage in various forms of movement-based play during interaction, which can foster social bonding and support embodied meaning making. The talk concludes with design considerations and suggestions that can support designers, and design researchers, working from an embodiment perspective and within inclusive design

Links:

  *   Website: https://www.move2learn.education.ed.ac.uk<https://www.move2learn.education.ed.ac.uk/>
  *   Video: https://youtu.be/PLYw69l_q5g

About Minna Nygren:
Minna Nygren is a post-doctoral Research Fellow based at UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), where she works alongside Professor Nadia Berthouze on an EPSRC-funded From Sensing to Collaboration project investigating the role of touch in interaction. Previously, Minna was a post-doc at UCL Knowledge Lab on Move2Learn and Move2Learn4Teachers projects focusing on embodied meaning making with Professor Sara Price. Minna's PhD, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is in Human Development (Title: "Landscapes of Affective Interaction: Young Children's Enactive Engagement with Body Metaphors") and it investigated young children's engagement with body metaphors through iterative design. For more about Minna's work, visit: https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/minna-nygren

Other Information
For more information about Inclusive Design Critiques and Workshops including schedule, please visit this wiki page<https://fluidproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/fluid/pages/11513504/Community+workshops+and+design+crits>. This meeting will be video recorded. We respectfully ask that attendees follow the Fluid and Inclusive Design Community Code of Conduct<https://fluidproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/fluid/pages/11537403/Inclusion+in+the+Fluid+Community>.


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Jonathan Hung (pronouns: he / him)
Senior Inclusive Design Collaborator / Researcher
Email: jhung at ocadu.ca<mailto:jhung at ocadu.ca>
Inclusive Design Research Centre
OCAD University


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