Workshop Description

<aside> 🕘 When: June 19, 2023

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<aside> 📍 Where: Hybrid, Room 1607, Abbott Hall, 710 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago As part of the 2023 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, Chicago, IL

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• 📣 Important Dates

In recent years, there has been an increasing advancements in the field of interaction design for children in the design of new technology. However, this often focuses on children, and less attention is paid to the broader family context.

Families are an integral part of the development of any child, and while children may be the primary users of technology, family members such as parents, siblings, and relatives might play a role in the child's interaction. Thus, it is important to consider family members and dynamics to understand factors that will contribute to the child's interaction with technology.

Family-centered interaction design could offer many insights, such as understanding conflicting goals and perspectives of family members, facilitating communication between family members, building stronger family bonds, or long-term engagement.

In this half-day workshop, we will explore the benefits, challenges, and open questions for moving towards a more family-centered approach to interaction design for children. The main goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to share their work and experiences in the field of family-centered design, to facilitate discussions and exchange of ideas, and to identify potential areas for future research and collaboration. Through these activities, participants will gain a better understanding of the benefits, challenges, and open questions for a family-centered design and how it can be effectively implemented in their own work.

<aside> 💡 Workshop Goals:

• To facilitate discussions about family-centered interaction design
• To explore the benefits and challenges of designing for families
• To discuss open questions and future directions for the field </aside>

<aside> 💡 Workshop Format:

• This is a half-day workshop.
• The workshop will consist of a mix of invited talks and interactive activities.
• Participants will be encouraged to ask questions and engage in interactive discussions throughout the workshop. </aside>

<aside> 💡 Who Should Attend: This workshop is aimed for researchers, designers, and practitioners interested in family centered interaction design for children. No prior experience with family-centered design is required.

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<aside> 🤔 What will you get from this workshop?

• Engage in lively discussions and exchange ideas with other researchers in the field through interactive activities and insights from invited speakers.
• Brainstorm possible benefits and challenges for implementing family-centered design and gain practical insights to include in your own work.
• Collaborate with other researchers in the field to develop research ideas and gain practical insights for implementing a family-centered design.
  • Submit to Frontiers “Research Topic” (special issue) </aside>

Confirmed Speakers and Workshop Program

Dr. Jerry Alan Fails

Computer Science, Boise State University

• Speaker Bio & Website

Dr. Heather Kirkorian

Human Development and Family Studies,

University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Speaker Bio & Website

<aside> 🗓️ Workshop Program

• 9:00am - 9:10am: Introduction and workshop overview
• 9:10am - 9:45am: Keynote (Child-Computer Interaction) (Confirmed Speaker: Dr. Jerry Alan Fails)
• 9:45am - 10:30am: 5-minute Lightning Talks, from submitted position papers and work-in-progress reports

10:30am - 10:40am: Coffee Break

• 10:40 - 11:10: Keynote (Media and Family Studies) (Confirmed Speaker: Dr. Heather Kirkorian)
• 11:10am - 11:40am: Discussion: Open questions and future directions for family-centered interaction design
• 11:40pm - 12:00pm: Workshop wrap-up and closing remarks. </aside>

Submission and Deadlines