🎉 Congrats to ADAPT/DCU's Kanishk Verma for winning an Honourable Mention at #IDC2025 for his cyberbullying research with teens!
Learn more: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve...

#IDC2025 attendees gathered to Whales of Iceland Museum for this years conference dinner —celebrating Best Paper Awards, connecting over local bites, and exploring life-sized whale sculptures. A memorable evening of recognition and reflection.

At #IDC2025, the Research & Design Challenge invited participants to reflect on the theme of Hope — through the eyes and ideas of children.

Congratulations to this year’s winning team, whose design most compellingly translated children’s ideas into a meaningful and imaginative prototype!

#IDC2025 Work-in-Progress Session 2 was a vibrant round of lightning talks and poster conversations. Researchers shared emerging ideas from co-designing inclusive AI literacy tools and playful robotics for healing, to building babyGPTs and exploring AI in classrooms.

#IDC2025 Paper sessions 3.1: Online, 3.2: Children interacting with tech and 3.3: Stereotypes, Generational and Fundamentals included a total of 12 papers. Take a look!

#IDC2025 featured two powerful panels! One brought industry leaders into dialogue on how emerging technologies—and strategic collaborations—are shaping the future of children's tech, the other explored how partnerships like RITEC are shaping responsible digital play.

Group 1 of the #IDC2025 Work-in-Progress sessions included both lightning talks and poster discussions. From therapy apps to AI chatbots and playful design methods, the range of ideas was inspiring! Congrats to both the Best WiP and Honorable Mention awardees!

Excited to share that our paper won an honorable mention award at #IDC2025 🇮🇸🥳

Thank you to everyone who came to watch my presentation and to all the lovely people I met there! ✨

Presentation video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKHL... 🎥
Paper link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... 📝

@bristolhci.bsky.social and the Diverse-ability Interaction Lab had a good presence at #IDC2025 with two full papers and one pictorial, and with one of the paper receiving a Best Paper Honourable Mention Award!

In her #IDC2025 keynote, Janet C. Read invited us to reimagine hope-filled digital childhoods. Drawing on decades of global research in Child-Computer Interaction, her keynote challenged us to discover, dismantle, and design with care, creativity, and ethics.

#IDC2025 Paper sessions 2.1: Children, Safety, Special needs, 2.2: Understanding and Auditing AI and 2.3: AI as a tool / Using AI included a total of 18 papers, including the best short paper, and an honorable mention for best full paper. Take a look!

The welcome reception at #IDC2025 brought together old friends and new faces over drinks, laughter, and great conversations. A special moment: this year's chairs passed the torch as next year’s host city was officially announced — stay tuned for 2026!

#IDC2025 Paper sessions 1.1 Schools, Teachers and Learning, 1.2 AI literacies and 1.3 Learning and AI included a total of 17 papers, including the best paper, the best pictorial, and an honorable mention for best paper. Take a look!

At #IDC2025, demos highlighted the power of child-centered design—AI pals, board games, STEM kits & more. Fast pitches + lively discussions = big inspiration! Making complex ideas playful, tangible & meaningful for kids.

#IDC2025 welcome session introduced this year’s theme: Hope. It celebrated our organizers, volunteers, and sponsors—and gave stats on papers and acceptance rates. Yasmin Kafai’s keynote called on us to empower children as curious, creative, and critical designers in an AI-driven world.

What a start to #IDC2025 conference. Monday was packed with energy, curiosity, and critical conversations across a full day of hands-on workshops and inspiring presentations at the Doctoral Consortium.

Check out the moments of collaboration, discussion, and imagination in action!

What if we just had the children develop the @acm-idc.bsky.social bylaws?

@michael-horn.bsky.social is discussing how children developed community norms in a physics simulation platform (and discussing the challenge of creating IDC bylaws).

#IDC2025 #ACMIDC2025

Brilliant opening keynote from Yasmin Kafai bringing much needed hope and inspiration #IDC2025

A fitting way to travel to yesterday's thought-provoking workshop on playful and ethical AI for children at #IDC2025

The general chairs at the opening ceremony

Let’s start! After the workshop and doctoral consortium day, #IDC2025 is officially opening.

Beyond the Algorithm: Speculative Approaches to Critical AI Literacies with Diverse Youth | Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children

💡 New paper from TECI Lab @siatsfu.bsky.social at #IDC2025 this week!

Beyond the Algorithm: Speculative Approaches to Critical AI Literacies with Diverse Youth doi.org/10.1145/3713...

Sadhbh Kenny, Alissa Antle, Gillian Russell, Annemiek Veldhuis

#AI #YouthEmpowerment #CriticalLiteracy

Hey #IDC2025 attendees!
Stay connected, get real-time updates, and join the conversation with fellow participants.

Join our WhatsApp channel with groups for announcements and session reminders + general chat: chat.whatsapp.com/IoUwaXlf5xpA...

Let’s keep the energy going IDC2025!

I should be around for the whole conference, but I will definitely be at the Wednesday poster session for #IDC2025!

Come say hi and play game prototypes!

Heading to the @acm-idc.bsky.social‬ IDC Conference next week? Check out the "Innovating Digital Play" panel featuring Executive Director Michael Preston as well as colleagues from LEGO, UNICEF, and The Scratch Foundation on 6/26 at 9:00 GMT. joanganzcooneycenter.org/event/panel-... #IDC2025

Hi there conference goers! The full detailed program for #IDC2025 is out! Go and download your copy, make a list of your must see sessions. You definitely do not want to miss the social program this year! Read more here: idc.acm.org/2025/detaile...

The #IDC2025 conference has accepted 36 full papers, aligned with the conference theme of "Hope", that delve into a wide range of topics within inclusive child-centered design, learning, and interaction. Congrats to the authors!

Check out full papers on the IDC website: idc.acm.org/2025/accepte...

Who will I see at #IDC2025?

Ever wanted to help adorable hamsters solve engineering problems? 🐹🧰

We'll be presenting at Wednesday's poster session and sharing ongoing work.

The #IDC2025 conference has accepted 8 short papers that showcase innovative research and methodologies in inclusive child-centered design, learning, and interaction.

Congrats to the authors!

Find out details about the accepted papers on the IDC website: idc.acm.org/2025/accepte...

The Industry Panel of the #IDC2025 provides the attendees of the conference the opportunity to hear the views of leading figures in industry that actively support the field of designing tools for/with children.
#foundry10 #honda

Find out more info about this panel here: idc.acm.org/2025/panels/

In #IDC2025, a panel will present a research and industry design deployment collaboration, in designing digital play for children’s well-being.

Find more information about this panel and panelists on the IDC website: idc.acm.org/2025/panels/