ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2018)

The 2018 ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference, took place from June 19 to 22 in Trondheim, Norway. IDC 2018 is the 17th event in an annual series starting in 2002 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, IDC is the premier venue for research addressing the design, development and use of interactive technologies for and with children. IDC 2018 provided a forum for presentation, exchange and discussion of research and practices related to the transdisciplinary field of interaction design and children. We offered an extensive program including 28 full papers, 15 short papers, 1 panel, 27 work in progress/late breaking, and 16 art installations and demonstrations. The program begins with six full-day workshops, two courses and the doctoral consortium. Our keynote speakers, chosen to stretch our thinking and guide us to a better understanding of the future of the field: ? Pierre Dillenbourg (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ? EPFL, Switzerland): Germane Robots ? Kori Inkpen (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA): Capturing the Everyday Magic of Play ? Alf Inge Wang (Norwegian University of Science and Technology ? NTNU, Norway): Teaching Children through innovation ? experiences from EduApp4Syria and Kahoot! This year, a total of 96 full papers, 42 notes, 49 work in progress/late breaking and 21 art installations and demonstrations were submitted. The acceptance rate was 29% for full papers keeping with the quality standards from previous years. The website of the conference contains all the information: http://idc-2018.org/ and the detailed program with all the presentations and events is also available online here: http://idc-2018.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IDC_programV3.pdf Overall we had 260 participants, with 30 being from NTNU and 50 from Norway. Most of the participants were from top European and American Universities, and the proceedings of the conference are available in the ACM DL. Giannakos, Michail; Jaccheri, Maria Letizia; Divitini, Monica (eds). Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2018 (ISBN 978-1-4503-5152-2) 789 pages.

The website of the conference contains all the information: http://idc-2018.org/ and the detailed program with all the presentations and events is also available online here: http://idc-2018.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IDC_programV3.pdf Overall we had 260 participants, with 30 being from NTNU and 50 from Norway. Most of the participants were from top European and American Universities, and the proceedings of the conference are available in the ACM DL.

ACM IDC 2018: ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference will be held June 19-22, 2018 at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. The three-day conference organised by NTNU brings together international researchers, educators, interaction designers, and learning technologists to discuss and explore the design, development and use of interactive technologies for children's learning and welfare. Its General chairs are Associate Prof. Michail Giannakos (NTNU), Prof. Letizia Jaccheri (NTNU) and Prof. Monica Divitini (NTNU). This is the 17th event in an annual series starting in 2002 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, ACM IDC is the premier venue for research addressing the design, development and use of interactive learning technologies for children. According to its tradition, the IDC invites internationally renowned researchers to give keynote talks. For 2018, we have invited inviting: 1. Pierre Dillenbourg Computer-Human Interaction Lab for Learning & Instruction, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne(EPFL), Switzerland 2. Kori Inkpen, Social Technologies group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA This project (requested amount to NFR 100KNOK of the 500KNOK total budget).