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Playing for the planet: designing toys that foster sustainable values
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Abstract(s)
The children of today are the adults of tomorrow, for this reason it
is essential to educate this generation about sustainable values,
such as recycling and reducing waste and energy consumption. By
targeting children’s main activity of playing and toys, the design
of a toy that instills sustainable values is illustrated through
PlayGreen, a prototype of an interactive application. We argue
that this type of toy should be designed according to children’s
cognitive development and their learning skills, as well as
conforming to a value centered design process. This paper focuses
on Piaget’s cognitive development theory, more specifically, the
concrete operational stage processes, which occur between the
ages of seven and eleven years old. Our prototype is an
application focusing on the value of resource management and
allows children to create new toys from household materials. This
prototype was tested with 8 and 9 year old children via a Wizard
of Oz method. The prototype successfully integrated a value
related to sustainability and the users were able to manipulate it
easily as it was adequate to their cognitive skills.
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Keywords
Children Learning Sustainability Value development Play User characteristics Design guidelines . Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Barreto, M., Scott, M., Oakley, I., Karapanos, E., Nunes, N. J., Gomes, S., & Gomes, J. (2013, August). Playing for the planet: designing toys that foster sustainable values. In Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (pp. 1-6). DOI: 10.1145/2501907.2501947
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ACM