Research in Full-Body Interaction suggests the benefits of activities based on using embodied resources to strengthen the sensorimotor, cognitive and socio-emotional aspects of the user experience. However, scholars in this field have been often primarily concerned with the comprehension of and design for the user's mind. Little attention has been drawn on its connection to the bodily experience. The scarcity of adequate co-design methods with and for children to raise an awareness of their body during design risks of deriving interaction design decisions only from the perspective of adult designers. In this article, we present our research on novel co-design techniques to elicit children's embodied awareness. These techniques were analysed in the context of a design workshop series with a local theatre school. For the analysis, we used the Think4EmCoDe research framework, a tool to foreground key aspects of an embodied co-design technique for children. Results indicate the benefits of techniques based on physical theatre practice that (1) help children understand their body and space as mediators of ideas and meaning making processes; (2) allow them to incorporate the specific features of Full-Body Interaction in their co-design.

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基于物理剧场实践的儿童共同设计技术，以促进具身意识

全身交互研究表明，基于使用具身资源来加强用户体验的感觉运动、认知和社会情感方面的活动的好处。然而，该领域的学者通常主要关注对用户思想的理解和设计。很少有人注意到它与身体体验的联系。缺乏足够的与儿童共同设计的方法来提高他们在设计过程中对自己身体的认识，这存在仅从成人设计师的角度得出交互设计决策的风险。在本文中，我们介绍了我们对新的协同设计技术的研究，以激发儿童的具身意识。这些技术在与当地戏剧学校的设计研讨会系列的背景下进行了分析。对于分析，我们使用了 Think4EmCoDe 研究框架，这是一种工具，用于突出针对儿童的具身协同设计技术的关键方面。结果表明基于物理剧院实践的技术的好处：（1）帮助儿童理解他们的身体和空间，作为思想和意义创造过程的中介；(2) 允许他们在他们的协同设计中加入全身交互的具体特征。