Towards the design of a kids' music organizer

Authors:
Manuela Hutter;Sally Jo Cunningham
Affiliations:
Vegetarierbund Deutschland, Hannover, Austria;University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Venue:
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapter's International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Design Centered HCI
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate how young children aged 2 to 5 interact with music and their family's music collections. By going into their homes, interviewing them and their parents and observing the children performing a range of music-related tasks, we explore the way that pre-school children select, interact with, and organize music. Additionally, drawing tasks were included in the visits to engage the children and allow them to demonstrate their thoughts in a concrete manner. Insights into the children's' music behaviours suggest design features for a music organizer / player for very young children.