The Department of Hidden Stories: playful digital storytelling for children in a public library

Gavin Wood; John Vines; Madeline Balaam; Nick Taylor; Thomas Smith; Clara Crivellaro; Juliana Mensah; Helen Limon; John Challis; Linda Anderson; Adam Clarke; Peter C. Wright

doi:10.1145/2556288.2557034

The Department of Hidden Stories: playful digital storytelling for children in a public library

Gavin Wood, John Vines, Madeline Balaam, Nick Taylor, Thomas Smith, Clara Crivellaro, Juliana Mensah, Helen Limon, John Challis, Linda Anderson, Adam Clarke, Peter C. Wright

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We detail the design of the Department of Hidden Stories (DoHS), a mobile-based game to support playful digital storytelling among primary school children in public libraries. Through a process of iterative design in collaboration with library staff and children’s writers we designed DoHS to support the potential for playful storytelling through interactions with books. A deployment of DoHS with two classes of 8 to 10 years olds as part of their regular library visits revealed insights related to how to balance the expectations of a child-at-play and the requirement to further develop their creative reading and writing skills. Based on our experiences we recommend that designers create playful digitally based activities that encourage children to explore libraries and experience new interactions with physical books.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '14
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1885-1894
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450324731
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557034
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	32nd Annual ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 1 May 2014 http://chi2014.acm.org/

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Conference	32nd Annual ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	26/04/14 → 1/05/14
Internet address	http://chi2014.acm.org/

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Wood, G., Vines, J., Balaam, M., Taylor, N., Smith, T., Crivellaro, C., Mensah, J., Limon, H., Challis, J., Anderson, L., Clarke, A., & Wright, P. C. (2014). The Department of Hidden Stories: playful digital storytelling for children in a public library. In CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1885-1894). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557034

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Wood, G, Vines, J, Balaam, M, Taylor, N, Smith, T, Crivellaro, C, Mensah, J, Limon, H, Challis, J, Anderson, L, Clarke, A & Wright, PC 2014, The Department of Hidden Stories: playful digital storytelling for children in a public library. in CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 1885-1894, 32nd Annual ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, 26/04/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557034

The Department of Hidden Stories: playful digital storytelling for children in a public library. / Wood, Gavin; Vines, John; Balaam, Madeline et al.
CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 1885-1894.

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