ENACT
Enhancing Talk Across Contexts
Enhancing Talk Across Contexts
ENACT is an innovative mobile application designed to support and enhance parent-child communication across various contexts. The app provides real-time strategies to help parents engage in rich language interactions with their children during daily activities.
Discover how ENACT supports meaningful parent-child interactions through innovative technology and evidence-based strategies.
Enhancing Talk Across Contexts (ENACT) is a project developed by the University of Florida's Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies.
ENACT focuses on supporting parents in promoting language development with their young children during everyday activities. The ENACT mobile application uses innovative technology to provide real-time, context-specific communication strategies to parents.
When a parent enters a specific location with their child, such as a grocery store, park, or library, the app delivers customized tips and prompts designed to enhance parent-child interactions in that specific environment.
By providing support directly in the contexts where parents and children spend time together, ENACT aims to increase the quantity and quality of parent-child communications, ultimately supporting children's language development and learning.
Explore Features
Discover the powerful features that make ENACT an essential tool for enhancing parent-child communication.
Receive customized communication strategies based on your current location, whether you're at the grocery store, park, library, or other community settings.
Set up profiles for your children with their names, ages, and interests to receive personalized communication strategies that match their developmental stages.
Rate tips with thumbs up/down to help the app learn which strategies work best for you and your child, ensuring more relevant suggestions.
Earn badges and track your progress as you consistently use the app to enhance communication with your child across different contexts.
Receive AI-generated tips that incorporate your child's interests and generalize strategies across different contexts to maximize learning opportunities.
Monitor your engagement with the app and see how your interactions with your child are increasing over time across different locations.
Follow these simple steps to start enhancing your parent-child communication with ENACT.
Create profiles for yourself and your children, including their names, ages, and interests to receive personalized tips tailored to your family's needs.
Choose the community places you frequently visit with your child, such as grocery stores, parks, libraries, restaurants, or bus stops.
When you arrive at your selected locations, the app delivers context-specific communication strategies that match your child's developmental needs.
Use the suggested strategies to enhance interactions with your child, promoting language development in everyday activities and routines.
Rate tips using thumbs up/down to help the app learn which strategies work best for you and your child, improving future recommendations.
Earn badges for consistent usage and monitor how your interactions with your child increase over time across different contexts and locations.
ENACT is available for download on both iOS and Android devices. Start enhancing your parent-child communication today.
Compatible with iOS 12.0+ and Android 8.0+
Meet the dedicated researchers and professionals behind the ENACT project at the University of Florida.
Associate Professor, Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies
Senior Research Scientist, Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
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Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies
College of Education
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
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