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NaCanva: Exploring and Enabling the Nature-Inspired Creativity for Children

Published:2023-09-11 Issue:MHCI Volume:7 Page:1-25
ISSN:2573-0142
Container-title:Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
language:en
Short-container-title:Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

Author:

Yan Zihan¹^ORCID,Wu Yanhong²^ORCID,Luo Danli³^ORCID,Zhang Chao⁴^ORCID,Jin Qihang²^ORCID,Chen Wei²^ORCID,Wu Yingcai⁵^ORCID,Chen Xiang 'Anthony'⁶^ORCID,Wang Guanyun²^ORCID,Mi Haipeng¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

3. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

4. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

5. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

6. University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Abstract

Nature has been a plentiful source of materials, replenishment, inspiration, and creativity. Nature collage, as a crafting technique, is a fun and educational activity for children to explore nature and engage their creativity. However, the raw material collection is limited to static things such as leaves, ignoring inspiration from nature sounds and dynamic elements such as babbling creeks. Using a mobile application, we hope to encourage children's creativity by renewing collage materials collection and careful observation in nature. To explore this, we conducted a formative study with children (N=20) and a design workshop with experts (N=6) to formulate NaCanva, an AI-assisted multi-modal collage creation system for children. Drawing on the interactivity between children and nature, NaCanva enables the multi-modal material collection, including images, sound, and videos, which differs our system from traditional collages. We validated this system with a between-subject user study (N=30), and the results suggested that NaCanva unleashes children's creativity in nature collage creation by enhancing children's multidimensional observation and engagement in nature.

Funder

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Networks and Communications,Human-Computer Interaction,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3604262

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