“We are in this together”: Supporting Neurodiverse Children in Participatory Design through Design Partnering

TY - GEN

T1 - “We are in this together”

T2 - IDC'24 Interaction design and children conference 2024

AU - Teglvang Sejer Iversen, Noah

AU - Lundgaard Ernstsen, Mathias

AU - Iversen, Ole Sejer

AU - Iivari, Netta

AU - Kinnula, Marianne

AU - Sharma, Sumita

AU - Eriksson, Eva

PY - 2024/6/17

Y1 - 2024/6/17

N2 - We report how designers support active engagement of neurodiverse children (13 -16 y.o.) in participatory design (PD) through “Design Partnering”. Design partnering denotes a process in which neurodiverse children are teamed up with neurotypical peers to help them overcome cognitive, social, and relational barriers and thus make their engagement more active during design. We contribute with studies of design partnering in three different PD activities: Field studies, Ideation, and Prototyping. We map out the opportunities and challenges we faced in our study when applying design partnering in PD research. We discuss our findings to lay out future studies to be conducted in Child-Computer Interaction research to provide more knowledge on the potentiality and challenges of design partnering in PD.

AB - We report how designers support active engagement of neurodiverse children (13 -16 y.o.) in participatory design (PD) through “Design Partnering”. Design partnering denotes a process in which neurodiverse children are teamed up with neurotypical peers to help them overcome cognitive, social, and relational barriers and thus make their engagement more active during design. We contribute with studies of design partnering in three different PD activities: Field studies, Ideation, and Prototyping. We map out the opportunities and challenges we faced in our study when applying design partnering in PD research. We discuss our findings to lay out future studies to be conducted in Child-Computer Interaction research to provide more knowledge on the potentiality and challenges of design partnering in PD.

KW - CCTD

KW - child-computer interaction

KW - human-computer interaction

KW - neurodiverse

KW - participatory design

KW - Children

KW - Design Partnering

KW - Neurodiverse

KW - Participatory Design

KW - #CCTD

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85197860038&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3628516.3659385

DO - 10.1145/3628516.3659385

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 732

EP - 737

BT - Proceedings of ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

Y2 - 17 June 2024 through 20 June 2024

ER -