Paper Info
Title
Child Designers Creating Personas To Diversify Design Perspectives And Concepts For Their Own Technology Enhanced Library
Abstract
We report on a participatory design project that explored the use of child-created Personas to enable child designers to empathize with other children thereby contributing multiple divergent perspectives. The ongoing project aims to promote reading and creative writing skills among young children in Namibia. For decades libraries worldwide have been the key actors in fostering reading. Hence, in order to maintain their relevance, they are being re-conceptualized to cater for new needs and aspirations in the 21st century. In Namibia, dysfunctional public and school library services are lagging behind in this renovation effort, and are not contributing to the promotion of a reading culture. In an ongoing collaboration with a school in Windhoek, to design and implement an interactive tech library, 19 young learners engaged in weekly participatory design workshops to redesign their own school library. The children first created four distinct Personas for which they then modelled spaces and technologies. This paper reflects on the techniques used to enable children to become active design partners and to gain an understanding of designing for other children.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3202185.3202760
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 ACM CONFERENCE ON INTERACTION DESIGN AND CHILDREN (IDC 2018)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Children, persona, design, reading experiences, Namibia, interactive tech library, participatory design
Participatory design,Computer science,Public relations,Dysfunctional family,Persona,Creative writing,School library,Multimedia,Lagging
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Helvi Itenge-Wheeler110.35
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus221734.96
Alessandro Soro37917.99
Margot Brereton445874.48