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SUMMARY:Beyond WOW! Designing Quality VR Experiences for Kids at AWE 2026
DESCRIPTION:What is the key to finding success with younger users? Designing responsibly for children requires more than simplifying content. It demands thoughtful alignment with young people’s developmental capacities\, emotional needs\, and family expectations.\n\nVR platforms are increasingly full of young people\, even though the experiences were not created with young people’s unique developmental needs in mind. Many developers lack opportunities to hear directly from young users and their families and may not have reliable information about what kids need to thrive in digital spaces.\n\nIn this lightning talk\, Joan Ganz Cooney Center Senior Fellow Dr. Elizabeth Rood will share practical takeaways from a recently published set of guides for developers\, platform teams\, and funders interested in engaging younger audiences in virtual reality experiences. Based on research with pre-teens and their parents\, the guides offer actionable insights for creating VR experiences that center emotions\, relationships\, and autonomy as three north stars of design for young people.\n\nThe talk will include strategies for developing content that meets kids’ desires while also earning parents’ mark of approval as beneficial for development. Walk away inspired with actionable design guidance for creating quality immersive experiences and content for kids\, ten and older.\n\n \n\nJune 18\, 2026\n11:30 AM – 11:55 AM PDT\nGaming Stage | Expo Hall\n\nLearn more and register here
URL:https://joanganzcooneycenter.org/event/beyond-wow-designing-quality-vr-experiences-for-kids-at-awe-2026/
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SUMMARY:Interaction Design and Children Conference 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Joan Ganz Cooney Center\, along with our partners at The GIANT Room\, foundry10\, and the University of Washington\, are pleased to be presenting four different sessions at the 2026 Interaction Design and Children conference\, which takes place on June 22– 25\, 2026 in Brighton\, United Kingdom \n\n \n\nWorkshop: Frameworks in the Field: Considering Real Life Tensions When Designing AI for Children’s Well-beingDate: June 22\nHow to participate: In-person in Brighton\, UK\, or virtual (participants have already been selected via proposal)\nPresenters: Medha Tare (Cooney Center)\, Riddhi Divanji\, Jennifer Rubin & Jayne Everson (foundry10)\, Rotem Landesman\, Aayushi Dangol & Nisha Devasia (University of Washington)\n\n \n\nDemo: Bringing Inclusive Design Practices Beyond Academia: Launching the Co-design with Kids ToolkitDate: TBD\nHow to participate: In-person in Brighton\, UK\, open to all IDC participants\nPresenters: Mona Leigh Guha\, Medha Tare\, Ashley Moulton\, Sarah Sung\, Catherine Jhee\, Liza Gak\, (Cooney Center)\, Azadeh Jamalian (The GIANT Room)\n\n \n\nDemo: GIANT Remix Station: Supporting Children’s Creative Ideation and Publication with Human-in-the-Loop AIDate: TBD\nHow to participate: In-person in Brighton\, UK\, open to all IDC participants\nPresenters: Azadeh Jamalian\, Hongjin Du\, Rebecca Schifilliti\, Maria Eugenia Segovia Siller\, Jessica Mezei (The GIANT Room)\, Medha Tare (Cooney Center)\n\n \n\nWork in Progress Paper/Poster:  “Surveys are pointless”: Co-designing a new generation of surveys with children that fulfill their needsDate: TBD\nHow to participate: In-person in Brighton\, UK\, open to all IDC participants\nPresenters: Liza Gak\, Medha Tare\, Angelica DaSilva (Cooney Center)\, Azadeh Jamalian (The GIANT Room)\n\n \nInteraction Design and Children Conference\nJune 22– 25 2026\nBrighton\, United Kingdom Register: https://idc.acm.org/2026/
URL:https://joanganzcooneycenter.org/event/idc-2026/
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