Submissions are invited from caregivers, researchers, and practitioners working in the research domain of technology and media for children discussing topics around the role of technology in young children's life in the home, gratifications sought by caregivers through children's use of technology, successes and failures of current technologies and media in providing sought gratifications, the tensions and connections between screen media and voice agents, novel ways to communicate and interact with emerging technologies in the home, and empirical research studies in this area, including critiques of current practices of research in this domain.
Submissions may be structured in multiple ways, including (but not limited to) abstracts, position papers, pictorials speculative fiction pieces, opinion pieces, case-studies, or a summary of participants' interest and experience in this research space. Submissions should be submitted to neelma@vt.edu by January 20, 2022.
Participation in the ACM GROUP 2022 virtual workshop is free and open to everyone, which means participants do not need to pay the registration fee to attend it. Participants for the in-person workshop in 2023 however will require formal registration.
We encourage participation of academic parents who do not study this space, and researchers who study children's technology, but are not parents themselves to attend because of their personal connection to the workshop theme.