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FearNot!: providing children with strategies to cope with bullying

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Lynne Hall,

Susan Jones,

Ana Paiva,

Ruth AylettAuthors Info & Claims

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

Pages 276 - 277

https://doi.org/10.1145/1551788.1551854

Published: 03 June 2009 Publication History

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This paper presents FearNot!, an innovative anti-bullying intervention for 8-12 year old children, illustrating the potential of Virtual Learning Environments in providing supportive secure experiential learning for challenging social situations. The innovative technological approach taken to FearNot! is briefly described, along with an overview of the evaluation approach used to assess FearNot! with over 800 children in the UK and Germany. The demo of FearNot! provides participants with the opportunity to experience leading edge technology adopted for a classroom intervention.

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Aylett, R. S., Paiva, A., Woods, S., Hall, L., and Zoll, C. (2008). "Expressive Characters in Anti-Bullying Education." Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction, L. Canamero and R. Aylett, eds., John Benjamins, 161--176

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Sapouna, M., Wolke, D., Vannini, N., Watson, S., Woods, S., Schneider, W., Enz, S., Hall, L., Paiva, A., and Aylett, R. (in print). "Virtual Learning Intervention to Reduce Bullying Victimization in Primary School: A Controlled Trial." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

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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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