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child computer interaction curiosity measurement digital stories preschool age

Curiosity and Digital Stories: Exploring Preschoolers’ Behaviors

Eleni Gkantia , Kostas D. Dinas

Given curiosity’s fundamental role in motivation and learning and considering the widespread use of digital stories as educational tools from th.


  • Pub. date: October 15, 2024
  • Online Pub. date: July 22, 2024
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Given curiosity’s fundamental role in motivation and learning and considering the widespread use of digital stories as educational tools from the preschool age, we pursued measuring preschoolers’ curiosity when interacting with digital stories. Using 129 toddlers and preschoolers as a sample, three groups (one for each class) were given different versions of the same digital story to listen to: interactive, non-interactive, and animated. Toddlers' verbal and nonverbal behaviors were utilized to quantify curiosity as a condition brought on by the app. The participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviors were recorded during the digital reading aloud. Every child's data was encoded at one-minute intervals to examine concurrent behavior, and the results were then compiled. The findings show that interactive presentation formats encourage more touching and language use but less noise production and that interaction and the creative use of hot spots in digital illustrations are key elements in piquing viewers' curiosity while contributing to the strengthening of the engagement to the activity and the cultivation of critical thinking, creativity, and imagination.

Keywords: Child-computer interaction, curiosity measurement, digital stories, preschool age.

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