Towards the design of a kid’s music organizer

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This is an author’s version of an article published in the Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapter’s International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Design Centered HCI, Wellington, New Zealand, July 02-02, 2008. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1496976.1496979

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In this paper, we investigate how young children aged 2 to 5 interact with music and their family's music collections. By going into their homes, interviewing them and their parents and observing the children performing a range of music-related tasks, we explore the way that pre-school children select, interact with, and organize music. Additionally, drawing tasks were included in the visits to engage the children and allow them to demonstrate their thoughts in a concrete manner. Insights into the children's' music behaviours suggest design features for a music organizer / player for very young children.

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Cunningham, S. J. & Hutter, M. (2008). Towards the design of a kid’s music organizer. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapter’s International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Design Centered HCI, Wellington, New Zealand, July 02-02, 2008(pp. 17-22). New York, USA: ACM.

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