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Family Story Play: Reading with Young Children
(and Elmo) Over a DistanceHayes Raffle1, Rafael Ballagas1, Glenda Revelle2,
Hiroshi Horii1, Sean Follmer3, Janet Go1, Emily Reardon2, Koichi Mori1, Joseph ‘Jofish’ Kaye1, Mirjana Spasojevic1
1Nokia ResearchCenter, Palo Alto,CA, USA
2Joan Ganz Cooney Center at SesameWorkshop, New York,NY, USA
3Tangible Media Group MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
CHI 2010: Storytelling
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Outline
• Introduction• Related Work• Family Story Play• User Study• Discussion• Future Work
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Introduction
• As families become more geographically distributed, new trends of technology adoption are emerging around the topic of family communication
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Introduction
• Motivation: young children and long distance grandparents often have the most time and desire to communicate, but have the most difficulty using today’s tools
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Introduction
• A new direction in communication tools: Family Story Play
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Introduction
• Goal: design and build an intervention that teaches parents and distant grandparents how to help their very young children learn literacy skills at home, one that builds on distant adults’ intrinsic motivation to connect with their youngest family members
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Introduction
• Media is configured to highlight family members as foreground actors in children’s engagement with educational content
• A successful “edutainment” media: Sesame Street; Elmo helps improve child engagement while he scaffolds dialogic reading around book topics
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Related Work
• Story Play builds on a variety of research including tools for video conferencing, intergenerational communication, interactive agents, interactive books, and educational media
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Related Work
• Our work builds on recent evidence that families are already using video tools to regularly connect
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Related Work
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• Researchers of intergenerational communication have highlighted the challenges and requirements for designing for diverse user groups like young children and elders
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Related Work
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• The use of Elmo: how an interactive agent can engage families in educational activities by supporting child engagement and scaffolding adult user behavior
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Related Work
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• Our choice of book reading as a shared activity is inspired in part by evidence that reading (or being read to) remains a constant in most young children’s lives
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Family Story Play
• Primary system components
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Family Story Play
• Primary system components
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Family Story Play
• Special features: teach remote adult readers how to engage children in dialogic reading
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Family Story Play
• Scenarios: Katie and her dad read, and then mimic Grover in the story while the grandparent reads to them over video chat
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User Study
• Goal: to help us learn, from both the Skype sessions and the Story Play sessions, their relative strengths and weaknesses in the remote reading scenario to help inform our design of future iterations of the Story Play system
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User Study
• Eight families (24 participants) used both Story Play and a traditional video conferencing setup in a lab study– Book Content– Affect– Attention / Engagement– Page Coordination– Interaction with Elmo
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User Study
• Our qualitative analysis focuses on 4 basic questions ① How can technology support remote family
communication and interaction for families with very young children?
② How can technology help support remote family members to read with young children?
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User Study
• Our qualitative analysis focuses on 4 basic questions ③ How can technology help provide a “shared
context” for remote family reading and interaction?
④ How can a character who is familiar to and loved by young children help facilitate remote family reading and interaction?
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User Study
• Methodology
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User Study
• Methodology
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User Study
• Methodology
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User Study
• Findings① Support of long-distance communication for
families with very young children
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User Study
• Findings② Support for long-distance family members to
read with young children
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User Study
• Findings③ Providing a “shared context” for long-distance
family reading and interaction
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User Study
• Findings④ Elmo’s role to facilitate remote family reading
and interaction
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Discussion
Children’s attention and overall engagementParental roleStory Play form factorDesigning Elmo’s role to support family
relationships
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Future Work
• Grandparents may prefer to connect to a child’s Story Play device with custom software on a desktop computer that features a larger child image and the benefits of Elmo and page synchronization
• We are also continuing to refine the roles and interaction around Elmo
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Future Work
• A parent-child reading mode could support dialogic reading between co-located family members
• We are working towards increasing the amount and quality of interaction between long distance family members while supporting children’s learning through the attention and effort of the people who love them
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Conclusion
• Elmo is a facilitator• Children are more engaged with the book
itself and parents may give children more agency in reading with Story Play than when reading a book over Skype
• We are extending the traditional role of children’s media
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