Video-Chat

Who’s on the Computer? What Toddlers Learn from Video Chatting
Robyn L. Kondrad, Judy S. DeLoache, Kasey Soska & Rachel Keen
Child Development Labs
at the University of Virginia
ICIS, 2012
Introduction
Results
Familiarization and Introduction to Video Chatter: 5 minutes
Response
100%
Wiggle nose
Open mouth
Wiggle ears
Clap hands
• Toddlers have difficulty mapping on-screen
representations to their real-life referents
(Anderson & Pempek, 2005; Troseth &
DeLoache, 1998).
80%
5
12
60%
Make the duck swim
Shake the rattle
0
9
40%
2
20%
Remove the keys
12
• Twenty 18- to 24-month-olds
• Twenty 25- to 32-month-olds
• Half of the children in each group had
experience video chatting at home
References
Anderson, D.R., & Pempek, T.A. (2005). Television and very young children.
American Behavioral Scientist, 48(5), 505-522.
Troseth, G. L., & DeLoache, J. (1998). The medium can obscure the message:
Young children’s understanding of video. Child Development, 69, 950-965.
Yarosh & Abowd, (2011). Mediated parent-child contact in work-separated
families. Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in
computing systems.
6
6
Who did you see
on the computer?
Introduction to “Biggles” and His Toy Preferences: 3 minutes
Who played with
Biggles?
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Recognition of Biggles
Recognition of Toys
Response
100%
These are my animals.
This one is Biggles.
Biggles wants to:
ride on his green
truck, not on his
orange truck.
nap on his black
pillow, not on his
white pillow.
dance with his cow,
not with his frog.
Testing Procedure
Recognition of
Video Chatter
Video
Chatter
Recognition of
Biggles
Recognition of
Video Chatter
Who did you see
on the computer?
80%
1
5
1
3
None
Incorrect
Correct
60%
40%
14
16
20%
0%
# Toys
0
100%
4
80%
7
Which one of these
animals is Biggles?
Who played
with Biggles?
Recognition of Biggles’ Toy Preferences
4
60%
40%
7
8
5
5
20%
0%
18-24 mo 25-32 mo
18-24 mo 25-32 mo
Which one
is Biggles?
Which toy did
Biggles want?
Conclusions
• Toddlers, especially under 25 months, had difficulty
recognizing someone in real life from previous video chat.
• Recognizing objects from video chat was easier for all
children, regardless of age.
Which animal?
0
1
2
3
Gender, responsiveness during familiarization, and at-home
video chatting experience did not enhance performance.
Stranger
Acknowledgments
Thanks to the children and parents who participated in this research, the
research assistants who helped collect the data in the Child Language &
Learning Lab, and an NSF grant to JSD. Contact: rkondrad@virginia.edu
12
18-24 mo 25-32 mo 18-24 mo 25-32 mo
Percentage of Children
Participants
Correct
0%
• Toddlers interact with a person and see
several toys via video chat.
1) Do they recognize the video chatter?
2) Do they recognize her toys?
3) Does at-home video chatting
experience enhance performance?
None
Incorrect
8
Current Study
• Later, tested for recognition of person and
toys face-to-face. We asked:
3
5
Percentage of Children
• Video chatting, like face-to-face
interactions, involves social contingency
and reciprocity–these features promote
children’s learning.
Recognition of Video Chatter
Percentage of Children
• Video chatting is widely
used in many homes.
Grandparents often meet
grandchildren for the first
time via video chat
(Yarosh & Abowd, 2011).
Video Chatting Procedure
Which truck?
Which pillow?
• At-home video chat experience did not help performance.