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

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Methods and Techniques for Involving Children in the Design of New Technology for Children
Abstract/Description
Children have participated in the design of technologies intended to be used by children with varying degrees of involvement, using diverse methods, and in differing contexts. This participation can be characterized as involving children as users, testers, informants, or design partners. It is only relatively recent that researchers around the world have begun to work more substantively with children to design technologies for children. This monograph synthesizes prior work involving children as informants and design partners, and describes the emergence of participatory design methods and techniques for children. We consider the various roles children have played in the design process, with a focus on those that integrally involve children throughout the process. We summarize and provide a pragmatic foundation for fellow researchers and practitioners to use several methods and techniques for designing technologies with and for children. In this monograph we relate the techniques to the design goals they help fulfill. The monograph concludes with a consideration of working with children in technology design processes as we move into the twenty-first century.
Author/creator
Fails, Jerry Alan
Guha, Mona Leigh
Druin, Allison
Date
2012
In publication
Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction
Volume
6
Issue
2
Pages
85-166
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Methodological
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en Partial
Peer reviewed
en No
ISSN
1551-3955, 1551-3963
DOI
10.1561/1100000018
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage with Preview PDF
Citation
Fails, J. A., Guha, M. L., & Druin, A. (2012). Methods and Techniques for Involving Children in the Design of New Technology for Children. Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction, 6(2), 85–166. https://doi.org/10.1561/1100000018
Cited in
Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences: Theoretical, Practical, and Empirical Perspectives
Abbreviation
FNT in Human–Computer Interaction
Item sets
OB Citations - Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences

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