Children’s Creativity Lab: creating a ‘pen of the future’

Anne-Marie Mann; Uta Hinrichs; Aaron John Quigley

doi:10.1145/2693787.2693805

Children’s Creativity Lab: creating a ‘pen of the future’

Anne-Marie Mann, Uta Hinrichs, Aaron John Quigley

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

Technology is changing the way we acquire new skills and proficiencies and handwriting is no exception to this. However, while some technological advancements exist in this area, the question of how we can digitally enhance the process of learning handwriting remains under-explored. Being immersed
in this process on an everyday basis, we believe that school aged children can provide valuable ideas and insights into the design of future writing tools for learners developing their (hand)writing skills. As end-users of the proposed technology, we explore including children in a form of informed
participatory design during a creativity lab where we invited 12 children, aged 11–12, to put themselves into the shoes of a product designers and create a Pen of the Future using prototyping materials. In this paper we describe our methodology and discuss the design ideas that children came up with and how these may inform the design of future writing tools.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference (ACE 2014)
Publisher	ACM
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2693787.2693805
Publication status	Published - 11 Nov 2014
Event	ACE '14 Workshops - VidaMar resort, Funchal, Madeira, Funchal, Portugal Duration: 11 Nov 2014 → 14 Nov 2014 http://www.ace2014.info/

Conference

Conference	ACE '14 Workshops
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Funchal
Period	11/11/14 → 14/11/14
Internet address	http://www.ace2014.info/

Keywords

Child-computer interaction
Participatory design
Children
Handwriting technologies
Ideation

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