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Exploring children's investigation of data outliers

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Juan Pablo Hourcade,

Keith B. PerryAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 262 - 265

https://doi.org/10.1145/1551788.1551848

Published: 03 June 2009 Publication History

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In spite of the increasing amounts of digitized data that will be available to children when they grow up, little attention has been paid toward preparing them for the process of exploring data, researching related information, synthesizing findings, and presenting them to peers. In this paper we present our observations on activities conducted with 10-12 year old children that involved identifying outliers using an information visualization tool, researching the reasons behind the outlying data, and synthesizing and presenting results using a media authoring tool. Our observations suggest children in this age group can make use of information visualization tools designed for a general adult population, but that great difficulties remain in conducting online research, and in integrating data exploration, online research, and presentation of results.

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Exploring children's investigation of data outliers
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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DOI:10.1145/1551788

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Herdal TPedersen JKnudsen SBjörk SEriksson EFjeld MBødker SBarendregt WObaid M(2016)Designing Information Visualizations for Elite Soccer Children's Different Levels of ComprehensionProceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/2971485.2971546(1-4)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2016
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Webb H(2012)Computer applications for the classroomJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/2038772.203878927:3(65-72)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2038772.2038789
Desjardins AWakkary RMoher TQuintana CPrice S(2011)How children represent sustainability in the homeProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/1999030.1999035(37-45)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1999030.1999035

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