Children’s Participation in the Design of Smart Solutions: A Literature Review

Smart Cities

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Eftychia Roumelioti¹  Rosella Gennari¹  Maria Angela Pellegrino²  Mauro D’Angelo³ 

[1] Computer Science Faculty, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 39100 Bolzano, Italy;

[2] Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy;

[3] Perlatecnica, 81024 Maddaloni, Italy;

关键词: smart city;    smart object;    workshop;    children;    design;    programming;   

DOI  :  10.3390/smartcities5020026

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Smart solutions are widespread and diversified. Smart cities and smart objects are example of smart solutions. Their design usually follows certain patterns so that they can detect events and react accordingly. As future citizens, children are expected to interact with them in their daily lives. It is thus crucial to provide children with the tools for understanding, creating, and possibly programming them—in short, designing them. This paper presents a literature review of workshops involving children in designing smart solutions. The review coded a total of 25 papers that met the inclusion criteria. The discussion draws a research agenda using the workshops organized by the authors, the Roobopoli workshops for smart cities and the SNaP workshops for smart objects, as reference. Whereas smart cities and smart objects are usually addressed separately, this paper binds and compares them in order to investigate what, in different settings, enables children to be part of the design of smart solutions.

【 授权许可】

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