Children's Transformative Agency and Emerging Technologies for Social Good

Description of the granted funding

TAKEOVER renews Child Computer Interaction research by introducing the notion of transformative agency as a novel research agenda and by exploring how to foster it in relation to emerging technologies and societal challenges through the use of critical and futures design methods. TAKEOVER invites children to critically analyze emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality and social robots but also to consider their potential to address societal challenges such as climate change, gender equality and bullying, harassment and discrimination. TAKEOVER entails three intertwined streams of research 1) development of theoretical framework on children's transformative agency emergence and evolution; 2) long-term design projects fostering children's transformative agency through critical and futures design methods; and 3) in-depth empirical studies of the emergence and evolution of children's transformative agency during and after the design projects.
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Starting year

2024

End year

2028

Granted funding

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508 685 €

Funder

Research Council of Finland

Funding instrument

Academy projects

Decision maker

Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering
13.06.2024

Other information

Funding decision number

363594

Fields of science

Computer and information sciences

Research fields

Tietojärjestelmätiede

Identified topics

digitalisation, digital