Community Tour: An Expandable Knowledge Exploration System for Urban Migrant Children

ACM-IDC'23｜Bo Shui, Hanyu Guo, Haoyang Li, Chufan Shi, and Xiaomei Nie
April 22, 2023

Update: Our work has been featured as a case on SOINNO HUB of PolyU.

Urban migrant children encounter difficulties in developing a sense of belonging, which compromises their living experiences and academic performance. This project introduces Community Tour, an expandable knowledge exploration system designed to assist migrant children with their extracurricular learning, and empower social workers to systematically carry out community events. A knowledge exploration interaction process has been designed to localize STEAM education with community elements through practical tasks, learning motivation, and achievements. Prototypes of interactive installation and back-end platform have been built and partial validation experiments have been conducted, with future work focusing on collaborating with communities for field testing and design iteration. The sustainability of the system lies in the potential for education on various themes, and its compatibility from urban villages to more regular communities, contributing to the child-friendly cities.

Video can be accessed here from Mainland China.

Paper

Accepted to the 22nd annual ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC'23) Conference. 🔗

Award

Shortlist Award, Child-Friendly Design Award, Child-Friendly Expo 2023, Shenzhen
Excellent Strategy Award, Design for Social Innovation Course, Tsinghua University
Social Value Award, 2022 SDG Open Hack @Tsinghua University

Exhibition

SOINNO HUB, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Child-Friendly Expo 2023, Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center
Social Innovation Regional Forum 2023, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University