Working with Teenagers in HCI Research: A Reflection on Techniques Used in the Taking on the Teenagers Project

Fitton, Daniel; Bell, Beth T.; Little, Linda; Horton, Matthew; Read, Janet C.; Rouse, Michelle; Toth, Nicola

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33450-9_10

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“…While HCD is still rare in the design and development of robots, it is a successful methodology for working with teens [66][67][68]. A key component of HCD is that it engages people throughout the design process.…”

Section: Human-centered Design and Participatory Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory Research Principles in Human-Centered Design: Engaging Teens in the Co-Design of a Social Robot

Björling

Rose

2019

MTI

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Social robots are emerging as an important intervention for a variety of vulnerable populations. However, engaging participants in the design of social robots in a way that is ethical, meaningful, and rigorous can be challenging. Many current methods in human–robotic interaction rely on laboratory practices, often experimental, and many times involving deception which could erode trust in vulnerable populations. Therefore, in this paper, we share our human-centered design methodology informed by a participatory approach, drawing on three years of data from a project aimed to design and develop a social robot to improve the mental health of teens. We present three method cases from the project that describe creative and age appropriate methods to gather contextually valid data from a teen population. Specific techniques include design research, scenario and script writing, prototyping, and teens as operators and collaborative actors. In each case, we describe the method and its implementation and discuss the potential strengths and limitations. We conclude by situating these methods by presenting a set of recommended participatory research principles that may be appropriate for designing new technologies with vulnerable populations.

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Section: Human-centered Design and Participatory Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participatory Research Principles in Human-Centered Design: Engaging Teens in the Co-Design of a Social Robot

Björling

Rose

2019

MTI

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“…Young people have been increasingly collaborating in digital participatory settings (Fitton et al, 2016). Due to their unique and often effortlessly gained digital expertise, the generations of ‘digital natives’ (Prensky, 2009) have become active actors in many digital co-design and co-production of products (Dell and Kumar, 2016; Buccieri and Molleson, 2015) as well as digital policies (5Rights, 2017).…”

Section: Measuring Social Impact With Young Digital Participants: Curmentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth digital participation: Measuring social impact

Pawluczuk

Hall

Webster

et al. 2018

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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13Current scholarly debate around digital participatory youth projects and 14 approaches to their evaluation are examined in this article. The analysis of the literature 15 presented here reveals (1) an over-reliance on traditional evaluation techniques for such 16 initiatives, and (2) a scarcity of models for the assessment of the social impact of digital 17 participatory youth projects. It is concluded that the challenges and limitations of social 18 impact evaluation practice in digital participatory youth projects should be addressed 19 through the adoption of alternative, participant-centred approaches. These issues are 20 discussed in reference to a current ongoing study that seeks to identify solutions for 21 enhancing social impact evaluations of participatory digital initiatives by young people. 22

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“…Here, young people have been increasingly collaborating in digital participatory settings (Fitton et al, 2016). However, despite extensive research concerned with collaborative and co-creative approaches in digital design, it has been claimed that "these works do not explore the impact the process has on its participants, and rather focus on the process itself" (Guha et al, 2010, p.199).…”

Section: Research Gap: Digital Culture Co-creation and Social Impact mentioning

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Evaluating the social impact of youth digital culture co-creation: let’s participate and play.

Pawluczuk

Webster

Smith

et al. 2017

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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This paper examines young people's participation in digital culture and current approaches to measure its social impact. The analysis of the literature presented here reveals current scholarly understanding of the value of digital youth culture, social impact evaluation methods and their limitations. In order to contribute to the analysis of the value of young people's contribution to digital culture, this paper proposes two areas of consideration when working with young people: 1) Youth participation in evaluation; 2) Playful approaches to evaluation.

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Working with Teenagers in HCI Research: A Reflection on Techniques Used in the Taking on the Teenagers Project

Cited by 14 publications

References 42 publications

Participatory Research Principles in Human-Centered Design: Engaging Teens in the Co-Design of a Social Robot

Participatory Research Principles in Human-Centered Design: Engaging Teens in the Co-Design of a Social Robot

Youth digital participation: Measuring social impact

Evaluating the social impact of youth digital culture co-creation: let’s participate and play.

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