Evaluating children's engagement with technology through the lens of the grammar of visual design

Cristina Maria Sylla; Maitê Moraes Gil; Douglas Menegazzi; Monica Landoni

doi:10.1145/3628516.3656273

Evaluating children's engagement with technology through the lens of the grammar of visual design

Cristina Maria Sylla, Maitê Moraes Gil, Douglas Menegazzi, Monica Landoni

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In this pictorial, we describe a user study carried out with a group of 20 first graders (ages 6-7). The aim of the study was to investigate if it is possible to infer children's engagement with technology by looking at their drawings. The analyses of children's drawings was informed by the Grammar of Visual Design (GVD) and the results evidence that children's drawings provided valuable insights, helping to understand children's engagement and involvement with the tool. Applying the GVD to inform the analytical process reduced subjective interpretations of children's drawings. As such, this work adds evidence to the body of knowledge that seeks to validate more reliable methods to assess children's opinion in user studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference
Subtitle of host publication	inclusive happiness, IDC 2024
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	189-200
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400704420
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3628516.3656273
Publication status	Published - 17 Jun 2024
Event	23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2024 - Delft, Netherlands Duration: 17 Jun 2024 → 20 Jun 2024

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Conference	23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2024
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Delft
Period	17/06/24 → 20/06/24

Keywords

Children
Digital manipulatives
Drawings
Storytelling
Tangible interfaces
User studies

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Sylla, CM, Gil, MM, Menegazzi, D & Landoni, M 2024, Evaluating children's engagement with technology through the lens of the grammar of visual design. in Proceedings of ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: inclusive happiness, IDC 2024. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 189-200, 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2024, Delft, Netherlands, 17/06/24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3628516.3656273

Evaluating children's engagement with technology through the lens of the grammar of visual design. / Sylla, Cristina Maria; Gil, Maitê Moraes; Menegazzi, Douglas et al.
Proceedings of ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: inclusive happiness, IDC 2024. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2024. p. 189-200.

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