TY - JOUR

T1 - Raising Awareness of Stereotyping Through Collaborative Digital Storytelling

T2 - Design for Change with and for Children

AU - Rubegni, Elisa

AU - Landoni, Monica

AU - Malinverni, Laura

AU - Jaccheri, Letizia

N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 157, 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102727

PY - 2022/1/31

Y1 - 2022/1/31

N2 - The purpose of our research is to use design as a mean to support children becoming more aware of stereotypes in their own artefacts. We have been facing this challenge leveraging on Digital StoryTelling (DST) as a powerful instrument to detect children's beliefs and values including those connecting to gender. In addition, considering the role of social interactions in creating and reproducing gender stereotypes in children we have been focusing on the collaborative creation of digital stories to investigate stereotypes as a cultural product. The goal of the paper is to give an account of our process of digging into this topic and our design pathway in developing and assess a DST prototype directed to raise children's awareness. Our work main contribution is to spread insight on our approach and support the HCI community to replicate it to challenge the negative effect of stereotypes, and to provide new knowledge on how gender stereotype awareness could be raised among children through the collaborative creation of DST. As a final research contribution we provide a set of design recommendations to address the design of a collaborative DST tool for raising stereotype awareness.

AB - The purpose of our research is to use design as a mean to support children becoming more aware of stereotypes in their own artefacts. We have been facing this challenge leveraging on Digital StoryTelling (DST) as a powerful instrument to detect children's beliefs and values including those connecting to gender. In addition, considering the role of social interactions in creating and reproducing gender stereotypes in children we have been focusing on the collaborative creation of digital stories to investigate stereotypes as a cultural product. The goal of the paper is to give an account of our process of digging into this topic and our design pathway in developing and assess a DST prototype directed to raise children's awareness. Our work main contribution is to spread insight on our approach and support the HCI community to replicate it to challenge the negative effect of stereotypes, and to provide new knowledge on how gender stereotype awareness could be raised among children through the collaborative creation of DST. As a final research contribution we provide a set of design recommendations to address the design of a collaborative DST tool for raising stereotype awareness.

KW - Gender

KW - unconscious bias

KW - gender stereotypes

KW - Children-computer interaction

KW - Digital storytelling

U2 - 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102727

DO - 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102727

M3 - Journal article

VL - 157

JO - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

JF - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

SN - 1071-5819

M1 - 102727

ER -