WaaZam!: supporting creative play at a distance in customized video environments
We present the design, and evaluation of WaaZam, a video mediated communication system designed to support creative play in customized environments. Users can interact together in virtual environments composed of digital assets layered in 3D space. The goal of the project is to support creative play...
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| author | Hunter, Seth Edward Maes, Patricia Tang, Anthony Inkpen, Kori M. Hessey, Susan M. |
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| description | We present the design, and evaluation of WaaZam, a video mediated communication system designed to support creative play in customized environments. Users can interact together in virtual environments composed of digital assets layered in 3D space. The goal of the project is to support creative play and increase social engagement during video sessions of geographically separated families. We try to understand the value of customization for individual families with children ages 6-12. We present interviews with creativity experts, a pilot study and a formal evaluation of families playing together in four conditions: separate windows, merged windows, digital play sets, and customized digital environments. We found that playing in the same video space enables new activities and increases social engagement for families. Customization allows families to modify scenes for their needs and support more creative play activities that embody the imagination of the child. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/923872022-10-01T18:39:10Z WaaZam!: supporting creative play at a distance in customized video environments Hunter, Seth Edward Maes, Patricia Tang, Anthony Inkpen, Kori M. Hessey, Susan M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Maes, Patricia Hunter, Seth Edward We present the design, and evaluation of WaaZam, a video mediated communication system designed to support creative play in customized environments. Users can interact together in virtual environments composed of digital assets layered in 3D space. The goal of the project is to support creative play and increase social engagement during video sessions of geographically separated families. We try to understand the value of customization for individual families with children ages 6-12. We present interviews with creativity experts, a pilot study and a formal evaluation of families playing together in four conditions: separate windows, merged windows, digital play sets, and customized digital environments. We found that playing in the same video space enables new activities and increases social engagement for families. Customization allows families to modify scenes for their needs and support more creative play activities that embody the imagination of the child. 2014-12-18T19:02:32Z 2014-12-18T19:02:32Z 2014-05 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450324731 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92387 Hunter, Seth E., Pattie Maes, Anthony Tang, Kori M. Inkpen, and Susan M. Hessey. “WaaZam!” Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’14 (2014), May 7-12, 2014, Toronto, Canada. ACM. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7722-6038 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557382 Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '14 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery Other repository |
| spellingShingle | Hunter, Seth Edward Maes, Patricia Tang, Anthony Inkpen, Kori M. Hessey, Susan M. WaaZam!: supporting creative play at a distance in customized video environments |
| title | WaaZam!: supporting creative play at a distance in customized video environments |
| title_full | WaaZam!: supporting creative play at a distance in customized video environments |
| title_fullStr | WaaZam!: supporting creative play at a distance in customized video environments |
| title_full_unstemmed | WaaZam!: supporting creative play at a distance in customized video environments |
| title_short | WaaZam!: supporting creative play at a distance in customized video environments |
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| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92387 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7722-6038 |
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