3 papers
cs.HC2026
If My Toy Could Talk: How Young Children Imagine, Design, and Test AI-Enabled Toys
Feiwen Xiao, Ruiyang Wu, Xinyue Cui +4
To investigate the design space where children might design AI chatbots for their own toys, we developed ToyTalk, a technology probe that positions children as designers of LLM-ena…
cs.HC2026
How Children Design and Reason about Trustworthy AI Chatbots
Deniz Ozturk, Jiayu Li, Daksh Pratap Singh +9
Children increasingly interact with AI chatbots, making trust calibration essential to AI literacy. Prior research has examined children's trust in AI mainly as users evaluating sy…
cs.CY2026
Democratizing Foundations of Problem-Solving with AI: A Breadth-First Search Curriculum for Middle School Students
Griffin Pitts, Kimia Fazeli, Tirth Bhatt +5
As AI becomes more common in students' everyday experiences, a major challenge for K-12 AI education is designing learning experiences that can be meaningfully integrated into exis…