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Understanding Young People's Creative Goals with Augmented Reality

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Young people are major consumers of Augmented Reality (AR) tools like Pokémon GO, but they rarely engage in creating these experiences. Creating with technology gives young people a platform for expressing themselves and making social connections. However, we do not know what young people want to create with AR, as existing AR authoring tools are largely designed for adults. To investigate the requirements for an AR authoring tool, we ran eight design workshops with 17 young people in Argentina and the United States that centered on young people's perspectives and experiences. We identified four ways in which young people want to create with AR, and contribute the following design implications for designers of AR authoring tools for young people: (1) Blending imagination into AR scenarios to preserve narratives, (2) Making traces of actions visible to foster social presence (3) Exploring how AR artifacts can serve as invitations to connect with others, and (4) Leveraging information asymmetry to encourage learning about the physical world.

Source: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

DOI: 10.1145/3711097

Authors: Amna Liaqat, Fannie Liu, Brian Berengard, Jiaxun Cao, Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Institutions: Princeton University, JPMorgan Chase & Co (United States), The Clubhouse Network, Duke Kunshan University

Language: English

Topic: Augmented Reality Applications

Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4410513172

FWCI: 1.078

Cites: 44

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10