12 Ways to Empower: Designing for Children's Digital Autonomy

G Wang, J Zhao, M Van Kleek, N Shadbolt - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, growing research has been made on supporting children to become more
autonomous in the digital environment around them. However, there has been little …

Storybuddy: A human-ai collaborative chatbot for parent-child interactive storytelling with flexible parental involvement

Z Zhang, Y Xu, Y Wang, B Yao, D Ritchie… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Despite its benefits for children's skill development and parent-child bonding, many parents
do not often engage in interactive storytelling by having story-related dialogues with their …

StoryDrawer: a child–AI collaborative drawing system to support children's creative visual storytelling

C Zhang, C Yao, J Wu, W Lin, L Liu, G Yan… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Visual storytelling is a new approach to creative expression based on verbal and figural
creativity. The keys to visual storytelling are narrating and drawing over a period of time …

Storyfier: Exploring vocabulary learning support with text generation models

Z Peng, X Wang, Q Han, J Zhu, X Ma… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Vocabulary learning support tools have widely exploited existing materials, eg, stories or
video clips, as contexts to help users memorize each target word. However, these tools …

Studying the effects of educational games on cultivating computational thinking skills to primary school students: a systematic literature review

A Giannakoulas, S Xinogalos - Journal of Computers in Education, 2023 - Springer
This article presents a systematic literature review (SLR) on the effects of serious games, or
more specifically educational games that aim to teach Computational Thinking (CT) skills to …

Mathemyths: leveraging large language models to teach mathematical language through Child-AI co-creative storytelling

C Zhang, X Liu, K Ziska, S Jeon, CL Yu… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Mathematical language is a cornerstone of a child's mathematical development, and
children can effectively acquire this language through storytelling with a knowledgeable and …

OK Google, let's learn: Using voice user interfaces for informal self-regulated learning of health topics among younger and older adults

S Desai, J Chin - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI conference on human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present Health Buddy, a voice agent integrated into commercially available
Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) to support informal self-regulated learning (SRL) of health …

XCreation: A Graph-based Crossmodal Generative Creativity Support Tool

Z Yan, C Yang, Q Liang, XA Chen - … of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Creativity Support Tools (CSTs) aid in the efficient and effective composition of creative
content, such as picture books. However, many existing CSTs only allow for mono-modal …

“Elinor's Talking to Me!”: Integrating Conversational AI into Children's Narrative Science Programming

Y Xu, V Vigil, AS Bustamante… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Video programs are important, accessible educational resources for young children,
especially those from an under-resourced backgrounds. These programs' potential can be …

Visual StoryCoder: A Multimodal Programming Environment for Children's Creation of Stories

G Dietz, N Tamer, C Ly, JK Le, JA Landay - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Computational thinking (CT) education reaches only a fraction of young children, in part
because CT learning tools often require expensive hardware or fluent literacy. Block-based …