Iteratively building and testing machine learning models can help children develop creativity, flexibility, and comfort with machine learning and artificial intelligence. We explore how children use machine teaching interfaces with a team of 14 children (aged 7-13 years) and adult co-designers. Children trained image classifiers and tested each other's models for robustness. Our study illuminates how children reason about ML concepts, offering these insights for designing machine teaching experiences for children: (i) ML metrics (e.g. confidence scores) should be visible for experimentation; (ii) ML activities should enable children to exchange models for promoting reflection and pattern recognition; and (iii) the interface should allow quick data inspection (e.g. images vs. gestures).
@article{arxiv.2109.11434,
title = {Exploring Machine Teaching with Children},
author = {Utkarsh Dwivedi and Jaina Gandhi and Raj Parikh and Merijke Coenraad and Elizabeth Bonsignore and Hernisa Kacorri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.11434},
year = {2021}
}