- [[references]] - Title: Activity-based interaction: Designing with child life specialists in a children's hospital - Meta: - Authored by:: [[Matthew Bonner]] - Year: [[2012]] - Publication: undefined - Zotero link: [Zotero Link](zotero://select/items/7_3P6T6QBS) - URL: [Bonner et al. (2012). Activity-based interaction: Designing with child life specialists in a children's hospital. undefined](https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208360) - Content - Abstract - Child Life Specialists (CLS's) are medical professionals who use activities to educate, comfort, entertain and distract children in hospitals. Adapting to a shifting cast of children, context and mediating activities requires CLS's to be experts at a kind of articulation work. This expertise means CLS's are well equipped to help technologists introduce child-facing interventions to the hospital. We conducted participatory design activities with 9 CLS's to develop two mobile systems to explore how CLS-child interactions are shaped by activities. We observed 18 child-CLS pairs using these systems in a hospital setting. By analyzing these encounters, we describe a continuum for classifying activities as either Co-Present or Collaborative. We then introduce a framework, Activity-Based Interaction, to describe structural components of activities that impact their position on this continuum. These concepts suggest new approaches to designing mediating technologies for adults and children. ###### Discourse Context - **Informs::** [[QUE - What tension points exist between the goals of diversity and depth of user participation in participatory design]]