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Journal of Clinical and
Basic Psychosomatics A hackathon of cooperative play over 1000 km

(vii) Onsite conversation: Conversation among peers, somewhat limited, observed in four types (whiteboard
including conversations with parents and siblings drawing, cat’s cradle, bring me something). Below are the
present. play ideas presented in chronological order:
(viii) Onsite participation: Play various games among
peers, including parents and siblings present. 3.1.1. Plate spinner (10-year-old boy)
(ix) Solitary play: Examples of this behavior include This play involved rotating a plate on a stick. Originally, a
playing unrelated digital games without looking at the ceramic plate was used, but a child-friendly plastic plate
terminal’s video camera. was later utilized, which was shown spinning on the stick.
2.5. Statistical analysis of age dependency 3.1.2. Rope-jumping (5-year-old girl)
The time-totals of eight different behaviors were analyzed A 5-year-old girl played a single jump with a jump rope in
by linear regression and Pearson product-moment the room.
correlation coefficients and intercepts. The probabilities
<0.05 were considered significant. 3.1.3. Lifting (7-year-old boy)

3. Results The boy demonstrated a soccer lifting technique indoors
using a small soft ball.
3.1. Play ideas presented by children
3.1.4. My introduction video (three 1-year-old boys
The event was conducted with five females and two and one 9-year-old girl)
males in the lower grades, three females and five males
in the upper grades, and ten adult parents and staff. Children from various age groups watched the videos
Regarding the age composition of the children, females together.
were significantly younger than males in the upper grades 3.1.5. Look this way! (9-year-old girl)
(Table 1; P = 0.0240*), but there was no significant age bias
between the sexes in the overall composition of the lower The player faces the viewer in front of the screen and
and upper grades (Table 1; [All, P = 0.1072]). points either up, down, left, or right with their arms and

For the age composition condition of the participant fingers while saying, “Look this way.” If the viewer faces
groups, P-values were calculated by a student t-test for the same direction as the player, the player wins, and the
each mean and standard deviation (Excel, Microsoft) for viewer loses. The activity was canceled earlier because the
females and males in the lower and upper age groups. 43 player was inexperienced in operating the remote meeting
camera to display her actions properly.
Figure 1 visualizes a representative image of each play
of all the twelve ideas suggested by children with the 3.1.6. Whiteboard drawing (7-year-old girl)
number of all children who participated and the number Drawing pictures on a white piece of paper with the
of participants who played the same one as the presenter left hand was asked to guess what it was. The flowchart
introduced divided into female (red)/male (blue) and (Figure 2) summarizes the process of the online
lower-/upper-grade groups in the bar graphs. sharing feature of the teleconferencing system that was
As an overall summary, the upper-grade group was uniquely developed. Child 1 drew a picture on a white
characterized by frequent viewing of all the play by both piece of paper and showed it over the screen, but it was
females (Figure 1; red) and males (Figure 1; blue), whereas unclear. So, Child 2 suggested drawing a picture on the
the lower-grade group showed only male participation whiteboard of the online meeting application. Both the
in the earlier play activities presented. The involvement child and parent of the playgivers did not know how
of multigenerational children in collaborative play was to use the whiteboard. Several children and parents
Table 1. The age conditions of the child participants explored how to teach them, taking into account their
understanding.
Age (year) Lower age Upper age All
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD 3.1.7. Origami: Folding paper to make things (6-year-
Female 6.2 1.3 9.0 0.0 7.3 1.8 old girl)
Male 5.5 2.1 11.4 1.5 9.7 3.3 She seemed to be folding origami all the time, not facing
P by t-test 0.7241 0.0240* 0.1072 the screen. She only showed it when she was finished, while
Abbreviation: SD: Standard deviation. The significant p value is less the parent explained instead of her. A girl in the lower age
then 0,05 (*: p<0.05, **:p<0.01, ***:p<0.001). group participated in the game by folding origami.

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