@inproceedings{e998ba26c6574f33a16a465be8079bb7,
title = "Being playful - Learning from children",
abstract = "This paper explores children's understanding as a resource and inspiration for interface design and beyond. From children we can understand innate intelligences and skills, including a sense of number and the nature of play. Play is possibly one of the origins of imagination, which in turn is essential for our own creative thought. Surprisingly few adults engage in creative play, but it is when adult-like rationality and child-like imagination meet that we can best produce effective and innovative solutions. Even writing a paper has aspects of playfulness, such as the puzzle of phrasing an abstract in exactly one hundred words... or so.",
keywords = "Creativity, Imagination, Play, Virtual crackers",
author = "Alan Dix",
year = "2003",
month = jul,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1145/953536.953538",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2003",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "3--9",
editor = "Tony Nicol and Stuart MacFarlane and Linda Snape and Janet Read",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2003",
note = "2003 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2003 ; Conference date: 01-07-2003 Through 03-07-2003",
}