Fitton, Daniel, Read, Janet, Baxter, Megan Grace et al. (2 more authors) (2025) BabyHCI:Evaluating the Experience for Babies and Caregivers in the Context of an iPad App to Encourage Babbling. In: IDC '25:Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children. ACM , pp. 944-949.
Abstract
This work presents early findings from the evaluation of a prototype iPad game designed to encourage pre-linguistic vocalisations (baby ‘babble’) which support language development in babies. The core functionality within the prototype is already known to be effective and this work sought to evaluate and understand the experience of the app within the parent-baby dyad. The study was carried out with 10 babies (and caregivers) where the baby ‘played’ with the iPad app for five minutes and the caregiver then completed a short survey. This work is one of only a very small number of studies within the IDC community involving babies. The key contributions from this early work are a set of challenges which are valuable to other working within the field of ‘BabyHCI’.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the University’s Research Publications and Open Access policy. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Language and Linguistic Science (York) The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Electronic Engineering (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2025 16:00 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2025 08:30 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3713043.3731511 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | ACM |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/3713043.3731511 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:228439 |