HCC: Small: Collaborative Research: RUI: Mobile Gesture Interaction for Kids: Sensing, Recognition, and Error Recovery

尽管许多儿童使用移动应用程序来支持他们的学习和娱乐，但这些设备和潜在的互动并不是专门为儿童设计的。这个项目的目标是让年轻用户更容易接触到触摸和手势互动，并对用户更友好。这项研究将对在与儿童基于触摸的互动中感知、识别和恢复错误的适当和成功的方式产生新的理解。该方法包括研究儿童与收集其触摸和手势交互数据的移动应用程序的交互，以及与儿童进行设计会议，以得出他们对移动设备交互以及错误反馈和恢复策略的偏好。这种方法将为那些为年轻用户创建应用程序和工具的人提供设计指南。这项拟议的研究有助于其他交互技术的发展，如触摸和手势，以及通过基于手势的新技术理解儿童与计算机的交互。更广泛的影响：该项目的更广泛的影响在于促进替代交互技术的发展，如触摸和手势，以及理解基于手势的新技术的儿童与计算机交互。这项工作还将开发和验证一种方法，用于调查这种相互作用问题，并为它们设计改进方案，以便在今后与其他人群(如老年人或具有不同身体能力的人)一起工作时使用。这笔拨款将支持两名年轻的女性研究人员，并将资助研究经验，使就读于鲍伊州立大学(Bowie State University)的计算机科学专业学生受益。鲍伊州立大学是一家为少数族裔服务的机构。

Though many children use mobile applications to support their learning and entertainment, the devices and underlying interactions were not designed specifically for children. The goal of this project is to make touch and gesture interactions more accessible and user-friendly to young users. This research will yield new understanding about the appropriate and successful ways to sense, recognize, and recover from errors in touch-based interactions with children. The approach involves studying children interacting with mobile applications that gather data on their touch and gesture interactions, as well as conducting design sessions with children to elicit their preferences for mobile device interactions and error feedback and recovery strategies. This approach will result in design guidelines for those creating applications and tools for young users. The proposed research contributes towards the evolution of alternative interaction technologies such as touch and gesture, and the understanding of child-computer interaction with new gesture-based technologies. Broader impacts: The broader impacts of this project lie in contributions towards the evolution of alternative interaction technologies such as touch and gesture, and the understanding of child-computer interaction with new gesture-based technologies. This work also will develop and validate an approach for investigating such interaction issues and designing improvements for them that can be used in future work with other populations such as older individuals or those with varying physical abilities. The grant will support two female young investigators, and will fund research experiences to benefit computer science students attending Bowie State University, a minority serving institution.