Supporting parent-young child activities with interactive tabletops: a conceptual analysis

  • Authors:
  • Lu Xiao;Jennifer Martin

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada;The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Young children have development characteristics that make the traditional desktop a less favorable choice for supporting parent-young child activities. However, they love to explore the world through touch, which makes multi-touch interactive tabletops good candidates for affording parent-young child interactions. Yet our understanding of designing tabletop applications to support parent-young child interactions is very limited. This paper reviews the related literature on the research topic, and presents the design implications of supporting parent-young child activities through a digital tabletop.