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Companion toys for children

connected. Happiness should be an aim of education, and a good education should contribute significantly to personal and collective happiness” [1]. She also notes that schools today pay some attention to the satisfaction of physical needs. What is missing are the therapeutic interactions that enhance young people’s happy experiences in the classroom [1]. Noddings asks, “Why, then, is happiness rarely mentioned as a goal of education?” [1]. Motivated by her question, our goal is to explore ways in which to make schools and classrooms happier places. Other articles provide insight on how we might do so. Pykhtina et al. [2] In this article, we contribute to childcomputer interaction (CCI) as an evolving area of research and design. Our goal is to explore early elementary school students’ (K–1) happiness in a learning environment. We collected drawings by children to learn about their perceptions of happiness in the classroom and to consider their experiences with animate and inanimate objects. Our initial research shows that drawings are a useful entry point for envisioning interactive “companion toys” for young children’s happiness.