Chinese preschoolers as design partners - Lessons learned

Jinping Liu; Virpi Roto

doi:10.1145/3027063.3053343

Chinese preschoolers as design partners - Lessons learned

Jinping Liu
, Virpi Roto

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Abstract

Participatory design (PD) with preschoolers is an emerging and challenging research topic. This paper reports findings from a series of PD activities with children aged 4-6 years in China. China is an interesting culture for PD, and there is a hole in PD research with Chinese children of this age group. PD sessions were found challenging to conduct in this context, but techniques such as using a familiar comic character as a metaphor, the facilitator as the drawer, and one-on-one communication in a group setting seemed to alleviate the difficulties. Based on the case study findings, the pros and cons of each tested technique in designing child-computer interaction are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages	951-958
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053343
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2017
MoE publication type	Not Eligible
Event	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Colorado Convention Center, Denver, United States Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017 Conference number: 35 https://chi2017.acm.org/

Conference

Conference	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	ACM CHI
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	06/05/2017 → 11/05/2017
Internet address	https://chi2017.acm.org/

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Case study
Child-computer interaction
Participatory design

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