CHI PLAY '20, November 2–4, 2020, Virtual Event, Canada We have built and implemented a set of metaphors for breathing games by involving children and experts. These games are made to facilitate prevention of asthma exacerbation via regular monitoring of children with asthma through spirometry at home. To instruct and trigger children to execute the (unsupervised) spirometry correctly, we have created interactive metaphors that respond in real-time to the child’s inhalation and exhalation. Eleven metaphors have been developed in detail. Three metaphors have been fully implemented based on current guidelines for spirometry and were tested with 30 asthmatic children. Each includes multi-target incentives, responding to three different target values (inhalation, peak expiration, and complete exhalation). We postulate that the metaphors should use separate goals for these targets, have independent responses, and allow to also go beyond expected values for each of these targets. From the selected metaphors, most children preferred a dragon breathing fire and a soccer player kicking a ball into a goal as a metaphor; least liked were blowing seeds of a dandelion and applying lotion to a dog to grow its hair. Based on this project we discuss the potential and benefits of a suite-of-games approach: multiple games that each can be selected and adapted depending on personal capabilities and interests.
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In today’s technological world, human intertwinement with the rest of nature hasbeen severely diminished. In our digital culture, many people hardly have any direct experience of and sense of connection with “the real” of the natural world. The author assumes that when we want to find ways to mend this gap, arts-based environmental education (AEE) can play a meaningful role. In AEE, artmaking is regarded as itself a way of potentially gaining new understandings about our natural environment. As a reflective practitioner, the author facilitated three different AEE activities, at several times and at diverse locations. On basis of his observations, memories, written notes, audio-visual recordings and interviews with participants, teachers and informed outsiders, he interpreted the experiences both of participants and himself. To this end he employed interpretative phenomenological analysis paired with autoethnography.The artmaking activities researched here aimed to bring about a shift in focus. Participants were encouraged to approach natural phenomena not head-on, but in an indirect way. Moreover, the artmaking process aspired to heighten their awareness to the presence of their embodied self at a certain place. The research questions that the author poses in this study are: (1) What is distinctive in the process of the AEE activities that I facilitate?; (2) Which specific competencies can be identified for a facilitator of AEE activities?; and (3) Does participating in the AEE activities that I facilitate enhance the ability of participants to have a direct experience of feeling connected to the natural world?In this explorative study, the author identifies facilitated estrangement through participating in AEE as an important catalyst when aiming to evoke such instances of transformative learning. In undergoing such moments, participants grope their way in a new liminal space. Artmaking can create favorable conditions for this to happen through its defamiliarizing effect which takes participants away from merely acting according to habit (on “autopilot”). The open-ended structure of the artmaking activities contributed to the creation of a learning arena in which emergent properties could become manifest. Thus, participants could potentially experience a sense of wonder and begin to acquire new understandings – a form of knowing that the author calls “rudimentary cognition.” The research further suggests that a facilitator should be able to bear witness to and hold the space for whatever enfolds in this encounter with artistic process in AEE. He or she must walk the tightrope between control and non-interfering.The analysis of the impacts of the AEE activities that were facilitated leads the author to conclude that it is doubtful whether these in and of themselves caused participants to experience the natural environment in demonstrable new and deep ways. He asserts that most of their awareness was focused on the internal level of their own embodied presence; engagement with place, the location where the AEE activity was performed, seemed secondary. The findings show that AEE activities first and foremost help bring about the ignition and augmentation of the participants’ fascination and curiosity, centered in an increased awareness of their own body and its interactions with the natural world. The present study can be seen as a contribution to efforts of envisaging innovative forms of sustainable education that challenge the way we have distanced ourselves from the more-than-human world.
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Adolescenten brengen steeds meer vrije tijd door met het spelen van games en bevinden zich mede daardoor in een hybride leefwereld. Deze relatief nieuwe wereld brengt nieuwe uitdagingen mee rondom identiteitsontwikkeling en psychosociaal welzijn; voor gamende adolescenten zelf, maar ook hun (professionele) opvoeders. Wij onderzoeken de relatie tussen gamen, identiteitsontwikkeling en psychosociaal welzijn en de rol die (professionele) opvoeders hierin hebben.Doel Op dit moment ontbreekt kennis over de relatie tussen gamen, identiteitsontwikkeling en psychosociaal welzijn van adolescenten en is het onder andere lastig om handvatten voor (professionele) opvoeders te ontwikkelen. Handvatten kunnen helpen om beter aan te sluiten bij de leefwereld en behoeftes van gamende adolescenten. De resultaten van dit onderzoek kunnen bijdragen aan een positieve (sociale) identiteitsontwikkeling van gamende adolescenten in een hybride wereld. Resultaten Het promotieonderzoek gaat verschillende wetenschappelijke publicaties opleveren. We vertalen onze resultaten samen met professionals, opvoeders en adolescenten naar praktische handvatten voor (professionele) opvoeders. De betrokken praktijkpartners en opleidingen geven deze wetenschappelijk onderbouwde inzichten en handvatten een passende plaats in hun curricula en werkwijzen. Looptijd 01 september 2022 - 01 september 2026 Aanpak Dit promotieonderzoek heeft een praktijkgericht, mixed-methods design. Voor de kwantitatieve analyse maken we gebruik van longitudinale data van het Digital Youth project van Universiteit Utrecht. De kwalitatieve data wordt verzameld door symbolic netnography (een digitale variant van etnografisch onderzoek), interviews en participerende observaties met adolescenten en (professionele) opvoeders. In samenspraak met adolescenten en (professionele) opvoeders worden deze inzichten vertaald naar praktische handvatten.
Adolescenten brengen steeds meer vrije tijd door met het spelen van games en bevinden zich mede daardoor in een hybride leefwereld. Deze relatief nieuwe wereld brengt nieuwe uitdagingen mee rondom identiteitsontwikkeling en psychosociaal welzijn; voor gamende adolescenten zelf, maar ook hun (professionele) opvoeders. Wij onderzoeken de relatie tussen gamen, identiteitsontwikkeling en psychosociaal welzijn en de rol die (professionele) opvoeders hierin hebben.
The project’s aim is to foster resilient learning environments, lessen early school leaving, and give European children (ages 4 -6) a good start in their education while providing and advancing technical skills in working with technology that will serve them well in life. For this purpose, the partnership has developed age appropriate ICT animation tools and games - as well as pedagogical framework specific to the transition phase from kindergarten to school.
