Chimi’s PhD project aims to explore the potential of emerging technology designs to support, educate and promote preschool children’s skills towards understanding environmental problems and acting towards environmental sustainability. Through ethnographic and co-design research with children, Chimi hopes to develop an understanding of orientation towards outdoor play and co-design tools to expand children’s nature engagement and participation in e-science and sustainability. Her project expands on her Master of Philosophy thesis, which explored how children experience nature, and reflected on how new forms of interactive technology can be used as vehicle to support nature engagement and to enhance long-term stewardship towards natural environment.

Chimi’s recent publication, Rethinking the Development of Computational Thinking Skills in Young Children through Nature Play suggests how young children can learn computational thinking skills through nature play. The paper presents design opportunities for environmental sustainability and learning computational thinking skills outdoors to foster nature connection and to understand environmental problems without compromising their joyful experiences in nature.

Publications: QUT ePrints

Supervisor
Professor Margot Brereton

Earliest digital memory
Secretly hiding and using a friend’s monochrome Nokia phone in boarding school where mobile phones were not at all allowed within school campus.