Studies using co-design methods require the meaningful involvement of stakeholders in
creating new knowledge and harnessing, mobilising, and transferring existing knowledge to …

Research in robotics and human-robot interaction is becoming more and more mature.
Additionally, more affordable social robots are being released commercially. Thus, industry …

Digital serious games have shown to be effective in promoting citizen engagement and
social interaction. The reasons for their success are, however, unknown. This paper …

The paper presents an empirical study centred on a participatory game design activity with 8–
10 years old primary-school children, split in different sessions. The study assesses how …

Several workshops use toolkits to engage children in the design of smart things, that is,
everyday things like toys enhanced with computing devices and capabilities. In general, the …

This paper aims to analyse the emerging methodology of gamification, defined as “the use of
game design elements in non-game contexts”(Dertending et al., 2011). In particular, we …

La gamificación educativa es el uso de dinámicas y mecánicas propias de los juegos al
ámbito educativo, con el objetivo de aumentar la motivación escolar del alumnado. Desde …

Abstract Design of new technology with children has been widely investigated, and lately
several workshops have been organised with children for designing novel IoT or smart …

The motivation to stimulate children's learning engagement could be found in the fact that
learning is not always motivational in itself. This is particularly true when learning is …

While the engineering of digital twins (DTs) of cyber-physical systems already faces a
number of challenges, DTs of socio-technical systems are made even more complex by …