@inproceedings{5ec9a6888a144b6385c92a165ba3d549,
title = "Symbolic Relations in Collaborative Coding: How Children and Parents Map across Symbol Systems while Coding Robots",
abstract = "This paper explores how parents and children collaborate during a playful computational activity with a codable robot. We conducted interaction analysis of moments from two cases in which a parent and their daughter worked together to choose and input numerical values in their codes that would send the robot in a desired direction. Our analyses reveal how parents and children decide on this value through a process of mapping across symbol systems. We suggest that a shared understanding of these symbols' meaning is critical for the mapping process, and that the process is impacted by the affordances of the representational tools the pair employs. The paper concludes with a discussion of design implications for supporting parent-child collaboration during play with a codable robot.",
keywords = "codable robots, interaction analysis, multimodality, parents and children, symbol systems",
author = "Naomi Polinsky and Brian Andrus and Michael Horn and David Uttal",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by a graduate research grant from The Graduate School at Northwestern University. We thank the families who welcomed us (virtually) into their homes for this research, reviewers, Anjelique Bomar, Stephanie McCarty, and Paige Smith for research assistance, and the fellow students in our lab for their thoughtful insights. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 ACM.; 2021 ACM Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021 ; Conference date: 24-06-2021 Through 30-06-2021",
year = "2021",
month = jun,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1145/3459990.3460713",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "294--304",
booktitle = "Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021",
}