Eliciting Social Biases in Children using Tangible Games

Social capital and privilege, along with the constrictions of social stereotypes, can adversely impact a child's perception of the world. This paper describes the development and implementation of an interactive tangible tool for children aged 7-9, to be played with in schools across Pakistan to assess levels of socioeconomic and gender biases among them, as well as to gauge its comparative benefits over traditional detection methods. In order to obtain more concrete results, the tool has been developed as a theme-based game board for obfuscation, to divert the users' attention from the attributes being evaluated so that the investigative nature of the tool does not significantly hinder users from responding naturally.