The human-computer interaction handbook
Working with young children as technology design partners
Communications of the ACM - Interaction design and children
Reading in the wild: sociable literacy in practice
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Interaction design and children
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
Tales from the front lines of a large-scale serious game project
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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A significant proportion of research in the field of human-computer interaction has been devoted to game design. Yet, a multitude of good ideas and enthusiastic game design initiatives exist, where the games never see the light of day. Unfortunately, the causes of these failures remain often unexplored and unpublished. The challenges faced by researchers and practitioners are particularly complex when designing games for special target groups, such as children, or for a serious purpose. The HCI community would benefit from a discussion on these issues in order to avoid researchers and practitioners to repeat mistakes. We want to learn from projects that started with a promising idea, but failed or faced severe challenges. This workshop will be the first at CHI focusing on 'failed game projects'. In particular, workshop participants are encouraged to discuss issues that typically received little attention in publications and hereby contribute to the discussion on failures in the design, development and evaluation of games for and or with children. As a result, the community will benefit from these insights and lessons-learned, which will enhance the design of future (serious) games with/for children.