How far is UP? encouraging social interaction through children's book app design

Betty Sargeant; Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

doi:10.1145/2559206.2574784

How far is UP? encouraging social interaction through children's book app design

Betty Sargeant, Florian 'Floyd' Mueller

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Abstract

Historically picture books have been a social medium, an item understood by a combination of child and adult readers. Book apps are a new format for picture books. These items do not commonly require an adult co-reader; the audio narration 'reads' the text to the child. How Far is UP? is a children's book app designed to foster social engagement. Through interacting with the work users uncover text that contains different information to the audio narration. Pre-literate audience will not be able to comprehend the textual aspect of the narrative. Children will require an adult to read the text aloud and to discuss the content so that together they can formulate deeper narrative meaning. This study draws on children's literary theory with the view to uncovering ways in which interactive digital storybooks can entertain, educate and foster meaningful social, intergenerational bonding.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extended Abstracts Toronto, Canada I April 26 – May 1, 2014
Subtitle of host publication	The 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Albrecht Schmidt, Tovi Grossman
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	483-486
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450324748
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2574784
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014 - Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 1 May 2014 Conference number: 32nd https://chi2014.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2556288 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014
Abbreviated title	CHI 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	26/04/14 → 1/05/14
Internet address	https://chi2014.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2556288 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Book application
Children's book app
HCI
Interaction design for children
Interactive book
Interactive narrative
Mobile application
Social interaction

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Sargeant, B., & Mueller, F. F. (2014). How far is UP? encouraging social interaction through children's book app design. In A. Schmidt, & T. Grossman (Eds.), Extended Abstracts Toronto, Canada I April 26 – May 1, 2014: The 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 483-486). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2574784

Sargeant, Betty ; Mueller, Florian 'Floyd'. / How far is UP? encouraging social interaction through children's book app design. Extended Abstracts Toronto, Canada I April 26 – May 1, 2014: The 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / Albrecht Schmidt ; Tovi Grossman. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. pp. 483-486

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Sargeant, B & Mueller, FF 2014, How far is UP? encouraging social interaction through children's book app design. in A Schmidt & T Grossman (eds), Extended Abstracts Toronto, Canada I April 26 – May 1, 2014: The 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 483-486, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 26/04/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2574784

How far is UP? encouraging social interaction through children's book app design. / Sargeant, Betty; Mueller, Florian 'Floyd'.
Extended Abstracts Toronto, Canada I April 26 – May 1, 2014: The 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Albrecht Schmidt; Tovi Grossman. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. p. 483-486.

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Sargeant B, Mueller FF. How far is UP? encouraging social interaction through children's book app design. In Schmidt A, Grossman T, editors, Extended Abstracts Toronto, Canada I April 26 – May 1, 2014: The 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2014. p. 483-486 doi: 10.1145/2559206.2574784

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