The increasing presence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems geared towards children necessitates those who design and develop these technologies to understand how to address the emerging ethical questions in their development and use while maintaining a playful, child-friendly approach. Even more importantly, it is crucial to understand how we can address various tensions that have emerged among ethical principles. In this half-day workshop 

This half-day workshop will promote hands-on and rights-based design experiences for researchers and practitioners to ideate the benefits and challenges of designing playful and ethical child-AI systems. Together, we will practice ways to incorporate ethical considerations while maintaining playful, desirable, and imaginative aspects of child-AI interactions. Additionally, we will investigate the ways this a rights-based design tool can be further tailored for researchers and serve as a practical and valuable tool for considering ethics while prioritizing children's right to playful and valuable interactions with AI.

Dr. Colvert and Dr. Pothong will introduce their Playful By Design deck with a particular emphasis on the practical design and implementation of systems taking into account the tensions that exist between developing playful, yet ethical and (child) rights-respecting systems.