Design for sodal interaction through physical play

Nine very interesting position papers were submitted to our workshop on Design for Social Interactioll and Physical Play. The papers, present.ed in these proceedings, cover design concepts for very diverse user groups and eontexts of use. Creating novel concepts is often done using theories about human behaviour a ~ all inspiration source. This introduction describes the content of our workshop along three dimensions: user groups, context of use and related theories. 1 User groups A number of papers focus on designing illteractive produets for ehildren, sometimes combined wilh other user groups such as elderly. Abeele and De Schutter de~cribe a design project of an intergenerational game controlled with the Wiimot.e is designed for children and elderly users. Bath Wainer et al and Barakova describe projects in whi.ch robots are used to stimulate interaclion between autistic children. In thl: paper by Wainer at aJ. autistic children receive classes about programming Lego robots where they are motivated 10 collaborate while creating their Lego programs. In the paper by Barakova autistic children are molivated to collaborate by jointly having t