Making emotionally durable smart toys by (de)embedding technology

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Co-create research project funded by Free University of Bozen-Bolzano aims at expanding co-design process with children from a physical classroom and workshop setting to a remote co-creation process in which children from different localities with different access to tools and facilities can create connected/smart object ideas in a collaborative way. As an outcome, the project envisions creating digital/analogue tools and instruments for children to collaborate over distance for creating new ideas for digital technology while also reflecting on critical issues of the conscious and sense-making use of it. This project is based on the previously done research project Co-story and builds up on its tools and methods for co-designing technology with children.

PAPER PRESENTATION by Seçil Uğur Yavuz (UNIBZ) at BIN 2020: Designing for Play in New Nordic Childhood.

“This paper tries to shed light into the sustainability of smart toys while tackling the ambiguity of “smartness”. An alternative approach can bring different ways of defining “smartness” that is not depending on technology’s additional features, but on the “smart” usage of technology. This paper addresses smartness from the sustainability point of view and questions if digital technology can be an enabler to bring a different perception on toys to sustain them longer by being embedded for a temporary period?”

Link to conf erence page.

Date: February, 2021