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Supporting parents’ playfulness with their preschool children using generative AI
- Abstract:
- Playful interactions between parents and their young children are highly beneficial for the parent-child relationship and the child's social, emotional, and cognitive development. However, parents may struggle to initiate these interactions. To support them, we have developed In-Between, an app that takes brief input from the parent about their situation and uses generative AI to devise three suggestions to kick off a playful interaction: a story starter, a playful question, and a game idea. We share some reflections from initial conversations with parents and outline the research plan moving forwards.
- Publication status:
- Accepted
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Acceptance date:
- 2026-04-16
- Event title:
- 25th Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2026)
- Event location:
- Brighton, UK
- Event website:
- https://idc.acm.org/2026/
- Event start date:
- 2026-06-22
- Event end date:
- 2026-06-25
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2433348
- Local pid:
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pubs:2433348
- Deposit date:
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2026-06-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Voysey et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2026
- Rights statement:
- © 2026 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. IDC
- Notes:
- This conference paper has been accepted for presentation at the 25th Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2026). This is the accepted manuscript version of the article.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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