Colvert, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-1889-6007, Pothong, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-1735-7941 and Livingstone, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-3248-9862 (2024) Playful by Design: embedding children's rights into the digital world. Games: Research and Practice, 2 (2). pp. 1-10. ISSN 2832-5516
Abstract
To explore ‘what good looks like’ for children’s play in a digital world,the Digital Futures Commission consulted children, companies, policy makers, regulators and academics. Responding to public scepticism that play online could match the benefits of traditional free play, our research compared insights from play in non-digital and digital contexts and integrated them within a holistic account of how play possibilities emerge from the intersection of people, products and places, conceived at micro, meso and macro levels. This very complexity helps to transcend reductive judgments about digital play and suggests multiple levers for design innovation, synthesised as ‘Playful by Design’ principles. We operationalised these by co-designing an interactive tool for developers and designers of children’s digital play. Finally, by mapping the principles to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, we position play as a use case for the broader agenda of Child Rights by Design.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Authors. Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in Games: Research and Practice is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Child rights; children; technology design; digital play; design tool |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 2024 09:25 |
Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2024 15:45 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/3678469 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217704 |
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