Towards Goldilocks Zone in Child-centered AI

TL;DR

This paper emphasizes understanding children's interactions with AI, using YouTube Kids as a case study, and offers design recommendations to foster beneficial, age-appropriate AI experiences that support emotional, social, and creative development.

Contribution

It introduces design guidelines for child-centered AI that prioritize value-driven, developmentally appropriate interactions, addressing a gap in existing AI design practices for children.

Findings

Proposes design recommendations for child-centric AI interactions.

Highlights the importance of understanding children's interaction processes.

Suggests implications for emotional, social, and creative development.

Abstract

Using YouTube Kids as an example, in this work, we argue the need to understand a child's interaction process with AI and its broader implication on a child's emotional, social, and creative development. We present several design recommendations to create value-driven interaction in child-centric AI that can guide designing compelling, age-appropriate, beneficial AI experiences for children.