Supporting non-formal learning through co-design of social games with children

  • Authors:

  • Diego Alvarado

  • Affiliations:

  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Intrinsic motivation is hard to attain when designing games for educational purposes in non-formal learning settings. The approach I take in my research is to use a co-design technique to understand what motivates and entertains children while they work together in the creation of a social game aiming to teach younger children how to respond to an emergency. The technique has been assessed through a series of workshops which results I am currently analyzing in order to find issues that could lead to the implementation of a system to be used in the co-design technique. The idea is to ease the execution of the technique by introducing technologies intuitive to use for children. Moreover, I am interested in obtaining more information about children's social interactions that help me to solve the question of how a social game should be designed so children engage in the playing activity and can successfully learn from it.