Methods and Techniques for Involving Children in the Design of New Technology for Children

Fails, Jerry Alan; Guha, Mona Leigh; Druin, Allison

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“…After each researcher viewed all of the drawings and created codes for each one, the research team met to compare and discuss their codes using a brainstorming process called ''sticky noting'' (Fails et al 2012). ''Sticky noting'' is a participatory design technique useful for visualizing the similarities, differences, and connections between different individuals' codes or descriptions.…”

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There’s a creepy guy on the other end at Google!: engaging middle school students in a drawing activity to elicit their mental models of Google

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Although youth are increasingly going online to fulfill their needs for information, many youth struggle with information and digital literacy skills, such as the abilities to conduct a search and assess the credibility of online information. Ideally, these skills encompass an accurate and comprehensive understanding of the ways in which a system, such as a Web search engine, functions. In order to investigate youths' conceptions of the Google search engine, a drawing activity was conducted with 26 HackHealth afterschool program participants to elicit their mental models of Google. The findings revealed that many participants personified Google and emphasized anthropomorphic elements, computing equipment, and/or connections (such as cables, satellites and antennas) in their drawings. Far fewer participants focused their drawings on the actual Google interface or on computer code. Overall, their drawings suggest a limited understanding of Google and the ways in which it actually works. However, an understanding of youths' conceptions of Google can enable educators to better tailor their digital literacy instruction efforts and can inform search engine developers and search engine interface designers in making the inner workings of the engine more transparent and their output more trustworthy to young users. With a better understanding of how Google works, young users will be better able to construct effective queries, assess search results, and ultimately find relevant and trustworthy information that will be of use to them.

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There’s a creepy guy on the other end at Google!: engaging middle school students in a drawing activity to elicit their mental models of Google

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“…An existing body of literature is dedicated to examining codesign processes, which have been widely adopted within CSCW and HCI for a number of years and applied to a variety of domains including government services [1]; health services [8]; the design of persuasive technology [9]; the design of new technologies for children [13]; and the automobile industry [21]. However, to our knowledge, no direct comparisons have been made between alternative processes used and explored within the same design and development project.…”

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“…Existing work has reflected on the nature of participation in design [27; 17], examining the participants' multiple forms of involvement and the role that a facilitator can take in participatory activities, from coordinating, to observing, to full participation. Other studies have explored methods and approaches to co-design for successful user involvement and understanding [5; 16; 19] while other research has identified which design goal is best met by different techniques, particularly in the specific domain of designing technologies for children [13].…”

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“…The body of work on PD involving children has generated substantial knowledge on the role that participants can play in the design process as part of various co-design techniques [13]. Druin's "onion model" focuses on participants' roles and is an approach to unpacking the process of PD that resonates with other research on detailing roles, power and decision-making in PD such as [6; 27].…”

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Articulating Co-Design in Museums

Ciolfi

Avram

Maye

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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In this paper we reflect on the process of co-design by detailing and comparing two strategies for the participatory development of interaction concepts and prototypes in the context of technologically-enhanced museum visiting experiences. While much work in CSCW, HCI and related disciplines has examined different role configurations in codesign, more research is needed on examining how collaborative design processes can unfold in different ways. Here we present two instances of co-design of museum visiting aids, one stemming from an open brief, another from an initial working prototype; we discuss the process in each case and discuss how these alternative strategies presented the team with different possibilities as well as constraints, and led to different patterns of collaboration within the design team. Finally, we draw a set of themes for discussion and reflection to inform and aid researchers and practitioners participating in similar co-design processes, particularly in the domain of cultural heritage.

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“…The research will start with low-tech prototyping which is a brainstorming technique, sometimes referred to as Bags of Stuff [31]. This co-design session will involve groups of children, educators, teachers and HCI experts.…”

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Co-design of augmented reality book for collaborative learning experience in primary education

Alhumaidan

Selby

2015

2015 SAI Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys)

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Methods and Techniques for Involving Children in the Design of New Technology for Children

Cited by 171 publications

References 90 publications

There’s a creepy guy on the other end at Google!: engaging middle school students in a drawing activity to elicit their mental models of Google

There’s a creepy guy on the other end at Google!: engaging middle school students in a drawing activity to elicit their mental models of Google

Articulating Co-Design in Museums

Co-design of augmented reality book for collaborative learning experience in primary education

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