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TimeBlocks: mom, can i have another block of time? by Eiji Hayashi; Martina Rau; Zhe Han Neo; Nastasha Tan; Sriram Ramasubramanian; Eric Paulos is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is TimeBlocks: mom, can i have another block of time? about?

Time is a difficult concept for parents to communicate with young children. We developed TimeBlocks, a novel tangible, playful object to facilitate communication about concepts of time with young children. TimeBlocks consists of a set of cubic blocks that function as a physical progress bar. Parents and children can physically manipulate the blocks to represent the concept of time. We evaluated TimeBlocks through a field study in which six families tried TimeBlocks for four days at their homes. The results indicate that TimeBlocks played a useful role in facilitating the often challenging task of time-related communication between parents and children. We also report on a range of observed insightful novel uses of TimeBlocks in our study. 1 1 For the details, please refer our paper: E. Hayashi et al. 2012. TimeBlocks: "Mom, can I have another block of time?". In Proceedings of the 2012 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '12).

Author

Eiji Hayashi; Martina Rau; Zhe Han Neo; Nastasha Tan; Sriram Ramasubramanian; Eric Paulos

Publisher

ACM

Published

2012

Language

EN