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A magic box for understanding intergenerational play

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This paper explores the nature of intergenerational play and opportunities for technologies to mediate playful activities. We report on a cultural probe study of four extended families and introduce the Magic Box as a new probe for understanding playful engagement at a distance.

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      CHI EA '06: CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
      April 2006
      1914 pages
      ISBN:1595932984
      DOI:10.1145/1125451

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