Designing for or designing with? Informant design for interactive learning environments
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Cooperative inquiry: developing new technologies for children with children
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Kids as informants: telling us what we didn't know or confirming what we knew already?
The design of children's technology
Chris Crawford on Game Design
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, and Playtesting Games
Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, and Playtesting Games
Children's narrative development through computer game authoring
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Interaction design and children: building a community
Using the fun toolkit and other survey methods to gather opinions in child computer interaction
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Interaction design and children
Early narrative experience: positive segue to narrative gameplay
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology
A learner-centred design approach to developing a visual language for interactive storytelling
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Interaction design and children
Layered elaboration: a new technique for co-design with children
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Emotion-Driven interactive digital storytelling
ICEC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Entertainment Computing
Designing children's digital games on nutrition with playability heuristics
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
'Affectibility' and design workshops: taking actions towards more sensible design
Proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ChiCo: a platform to support children co-design
BCS-HCI '13 Proceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
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This paper proposes a design approach to build casual games by children for children. Children understand game narratives with previously acquired schemata that is different from adults. Hence, integrating narrative developed by children themselves into game design may serve the children well. Using a narrative approach to game design based on informant design methods, the proposed approach aims to maximize the contribution of both children informants and adult designers. It comprises of three major phases, namely Narrative Design, Game Design and Design Moderation. A mobile phone game was developed based on this approach. User testing revealed that the children generally enjoyed the game and that the proposed approach has promising potential in empowering the child designers. Future work will focus on further evaluation of the approach for refinement.