Make a Riddle and TeleStory: designing children's applications for the siftables platform

Authors:
Seth Hunter;Jeevan Kalanithi;David Merrill
Affiliations:
MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge Ma;Sifteo Inc, San Francisco, CA;Sifteo Inc, San Francisco, CA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We present the design of Make a Riddle and TeleStory, educational applications developed on the Siftables platform for children aged 4-7 years. Siftables are hybrid tangible-graphical user interface devices with motion and neighbor sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication. Siftables provide a unique opportunity to give children responsive feedback about the movement and arrangement of a distributed set of objects. We contrast the use case that includes an external display to their use as a standalone application platform. We outline design strategies for communicating information about the affordances of the Siftables and methods of providing dynamic feedback to encourage manipulation and to increase engagement during application use for hybrid tangible-graphical user interfaces.