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SIAT researchers recognized with ACM Interaction Design Conference's Best Paper Award
School of Interactive Arts & Technology alum Dr. Jillian Warren, professor Dr. Alissa Antle, postdoctoral researcher Dr. Alexandra Kitson, and RxPX Health co-founder Alireza Davoodi were recently recognized with the Best Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) International Interaction Design and Children Conference, the premiere conference for children’s design research.
The paper, titled “A codesign study exploring needs, strategies, and opportunities for digital health platforms to address pandemic-related impacts on children and families,” was funded by the NSERC COVID-19 Alliance grant and was published in the ACM’s Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, the top publication venue in the field of child-computer interaction. Nearly 200 papers were submitted to the journal in 2023 with 40 of those selected for publication. After a thorough evaluation process of the published works, Warren, Antle, Kitson, and Davoodi's paper was selected for this recognition.
Warren, who completed her PhD at SIAT in 2023 and who is now an assistant professor at Chapman University, and her SIAT collaborators Antle and Kitson, were presented with the award at the ACM conference held in Delft, NL on June 20, 2024.
The project began while Warren was a PhD student at SIAT in Antle’s Tangible Embodied Child-Computer Interaction (TECI) lab and went on to become part of Warren’s doctoral cumulative dissertation.
In the paper, Warren and her collaborators contribute seven design opportunities for future health platforms that focus on supporting the mental health and socioemotional needs of children and their supporting adults in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. These design opportunities were derived from a co-design study with children, their parents, and their teachers and open the conversation around designing digital health platforms for children and supporting adults.
The recognition of this paper as the top paper for 2023 highlights the impact of and future potential of the research.
The researchers hope that this work inspires other designers and researchers to work with children to purse explorations around how technology, especially opportunities for social digital health platforms, can support their socio-emotional needs in the wake of the pandemic and beyond.
The researchers thank their study supporters including Lynda Brown-Ganzert (RxPX Health); the digital health technology expert participants at RxPx Health; trauma-informed educational consultant Deanna Maki; and participating teachers, students, and parents from Montecito Elementary in the Burnaby School District for sharing their personal COVID-related experiences during the ongoing crisis.