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

虽然许多儿童使用移动的应用程序来支持他们的学习和娱乐，但这些设备和底层交互并不是专为儿童设计的。该项目的目标是使触摸和手势交互对年轻用户更容易访问和用户友好。这项研究将产生新的理解，适当的和成功的方式来感知，识别，并从错误中恢复触摸为基础的互动与儿童。该方法包括研究儿童与移动的应用程序的交互，这些应用程序收集有关其触摸和手势交互的数据，以及与儿童进行设计会议，以了解他们对移动终端交互的偏好以及错误反馈和恢复策略。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。拟议的研究有助于替代交互技术的发展，如触摸和手势，并与新的基于手势的技术的儿童计算机交互的理解。更广泛的影响：该项目更广泛的影响在于对替代交互技术（如触摸和手势）的发展做出贡献，以及对儿童与计算机交互与新的基于手势的技术的理解。这项工作还将开发和验证一种方法，用于调查这种互动问题，并为它们设计改进方案，这些改进方案可用于未来与其他人群（如老年人或具有不同身体能力的人）的合作。 这笔赠款将支持两名年轻的女性研究人员，并将资助研究经验，以使就读于鲍伊州立大学的计算机科学学生受益，鲍伊州立大学是一所少数民族服务机构。

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.