{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,28]],"date-time":"2026-04-28T13:01:36Z","timestamp":1777381296205,"version":"3.51.4"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"SAGE Publications","issue":"3","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2014,1,1]],"date-time":"2014-01-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1388534400000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/page\/policies\/text-and-data-mining-license"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["journals.sagepub.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2014,5]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>This paper discusses the evocative power and play value of the Wearable Sounds Kit (WSK), a movement-to-sound interaction accessory. Whilst movement-to-sound interaction is attracting growing research attention in HCI, very little of it has been conducted in the context of free-play with children. This paper presents a participatory design study of the WSK with 20 school-aged children (7\u201312 years old) in a free-play scenario, and an evaluation of the WSK in a playground at Ars Electronica Festival with over 70 school-aged children. The evaluation addressed three research questions: can school-aged children incorporate the WSK into their free-play? What free-play patterns are encouraged by the WSK? Which design features of the WSK influence the free-play experience? By conducting qualitative and quantitative data gathering methods and analyses, which include first-hand observations and video-coding, this paper shows that school-aged children can effectively incorporate the WSK into their free-play, and that the accessory encourages different types of free-play. The results also show differences in the free-play mediated by the accessory depending on the age group and sex of the player, and these differences reinforce the play value of the WSK. Some implications for designing technologically-oriented playful toys are also discussed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/ais-140260","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,29]],"date-time":"2019-11-29T18:13:42Z","timestamp":1575051222000},"page":"313-330","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["On the evocative power and play value of a wearable movement-to-sound interaction accessory in the free-play of schoolchildren"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"6","author":[{"given":"Andrea","family":"Rosales","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Information and Communication Technologies Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sergio","family":"Sayago","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science and Engineering Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Juan Pablo","family":"Carrascal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Information and Communication Technologies Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Josep","family":"Blat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Information and Communication Technologies Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,1]]},"container-title":["Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.3233\/AIS-140260","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.3233\/AIS-140260","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,28]],"date-time":"2026-04-28T09:20:24Z","timestamp":1777368024000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.3233\/AIS-140260"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2014,1]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2014,5]]}},"alternative-id":["10.3233\/AIS-140260"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3233\/ais-140260","relation":{},"ISSN":["1876-1364","1876-1372"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1876-1364","type":"print"},{"value":"1876-1372","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2014,1]]}}}