Design with and for children
the challenge of inclusivity
Informazioni aggiuntive
Autori
Valguarnera S.,
Landoni M.
Tipo
Contributo in atti di convegno
Anno
2023
Lingua
Inglese
Sommario
In this position paper we will discuss the challenges of inclusivity when involving children in collaborative design. The HCI community is strongly committed to promoting inclusive user studies as the way to foster a better understanding of users and their needs. Similarly, researchers in Child Computer Interaction (CCI) are actively promoting the direct engagement of young users. However, inclusivity still proves to be a challenge, with the involvement of parents and guardians being the first step to take. Discussion will be driven by literature in CCI as well as by our experience running a project involving very young children in the co-design of technology to support the development of pre-reading skills. We will present the concept of child as protagonist as championed by recent literature and explore whether and how the community has embraced it over time. We will look at different domains, context and age groups as starting point for a systematic analysis of the available approaches to reach out and be inclusive when running user studies involving children. Our experience with the recruitment of young children and the struggle to make our study inclusive will provide an insight into a dimension seldomly discussed in literature and will enable us to elaborate on open issues for the CCI as well as the HCI communities to reflect on.
Parole chiave
Children , Codesign, Collaborative design, Inclusivity
Titolo atti di convegno
Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. HCII 2023
Pagine (o numero dell’articolo)
171-184
Diffusione
Licenza
Licenza non definita
Visibilità
Pubblico
Status open access
Green
