IDC 2006 conference will continue to present significant contributions to research, development, and practice in the field of interaction design and children. All accepted papers are presented at the IDC 2006 conference, and appear in the IDC 2006 Proceedings. Proceedings will be published in ACM Digital Library.

IDC 2006 welcomes submissions on all topics from the domain of interaction design and children, including, but not limited to:

• Emerging or new technologies and their impact on children's education or play
• Methods and techniques for establishing children's requirements for interactive systems
• Guidelines for the design of interactive systems for children
• Reports on the development of interactive systems for children (motivation, design, outcome, evaluation)
• Usability, enjoyability, accessibility, ethics, and safety issues, with particular reference to children
• Design of innovative systems to children
• Evaluation methods for use with children
• Evaluations of interactive systems and technologies for children
• Theoretical models of interaction with special relevance to children
• Results of ethnographic and case studies in children's use of interactive systems
• Stimulating in-depth analyses of issues related to interaction design and children
• Effects of interactive technologies in children's lives (e.g. game violence and aggression, obesity, learning...)
• Design and evaluation of interactive systems for children with special needs

More information on submissions can be found at submissions section.

Call for reviewers

In addition to submitting your own contribution, we would like to encourage you to volunteer for reviewing the submissions. You can do that by creating an account using the IDC submission site, and then specifying your expertise in several IDC-related themes. It will only take a few minutes -- it's just a rough profile to help in assigning papers to reviewers. The real work is after the call closes; the reviews are needed in about three weeks. We hope that we can count on your support for making IDC2006 a success.

Last updated January 5, 2006