An audio-augmented toy produced significantly longer cooperative play than the same toy without augmentation in triads of 6- to 11-year-olds¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3 · i3 large
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i3 Children playing with the augmented Knights' Castle spent significantly more time in cooperative play than those with the non-augmented version (planned comparison F(1, 14) = 4.47, p < 0.05, η2 = 0.24). → Yuill N 2014

Evidence¶

Yuill N 2014¶

Yuill N, Hinske S, Williams SE and Leith G (2014) How getting noticed helps getting on: successful attention capture doubles children's cooperative play. Front. Psychol. 5:418. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00418

q3 · i3 · causal · r2

Study 1: video data of 48 6- to 11-year-olds randomly allocated to triads with the augmented (AKC) or non-augmented (KC) playset; MANOVA of play durations showed "a significant interaction between play category and toy type, [ F(2, 28) = 10.50, p < 0.001, 05, η2 = 0.43]" and the planned comparison yielded η2 = 0.24. The discussion reports cooperative play was "more than double the length of time".

"a planned comparison supported the hypothesis that cooperative play would be more common for AKC than KC, [ F(1, 14) = 4.47, p < 0.05, η2 = 0.24], observed power of 0.51"

Discussion¶

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