How Young Can Our Design Partners Be

For this work-in-progress presentation, we report on our experiences working with young children as technology design partners. Our team from the Human-Computer Interaction Lab has extensive participatory design experience in working with 7-11 year old children. Here we describe our first year working with 4-6 year old children and the ways that we altered our methodologies to meet the unique needs of our younger design partners.

[1]  J. Dewey.  The child and the curriculum , 1902 .

[2]  Katherine Camp Mayhew,et al.  The Dewey School The Laboratory School Of The University Of Chicago 1896-1903 , 1936 .

[3]  Thomas A. Keenan.  Computers and education , 1964, CACM.

[4]  L. S. Vygotskiĭ,et al.  Mind in society : the development of higher psychological processes , 1978 .

[5]  Seymour Papert,et al.  Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas , 1981 .

[6]  H. Gardner,et al.  Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences , 1983 .

[7]  M. Kyng,et al.  Computers and Democracy: A Scandinavian Challenge , 1987 .

[8]  Introducing Science Research to Elementary School Children. , 1987 .

[9]  Seymour Papert,et al.  Software Design as a Learning Environment , 1990, Interact. Learn. Environ..

[10]  Austin Henderson,et al.  Reflections on participatory design: lessons from the trillium experience , 1990, CHI '90.

[11]  John Steers,et al.  Design and Technology in the National Curriculum. , 1990 .

[12]  Priscilla Norton.  When technology meets the subject-matter disciplines in education: part three: incorporating the computer as method , 1992 .

[13]  David C. Dwyer,et al.  Teaching in High-Tech Environments: Classroom Management Revisited , 1992 .

[14]  Douglas Schuler,et al.  Participatory Design: Principles and Practices , 1993 .

[15]  Vicki S. Napper.  Design at work: Cooperative design of computer systems, Greenbaum, J. and Kyng, M. (Eds.). The book, Design at Work: Cooperative design of computer systems, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991, (ISBN 0-8058-611-3) is available in hardback ($49.95) and paperback ($29.95) , 1994 .

[16]  K. McGilly,et al.  Classroom lessons: Integrating cognitive theory and classroom practice. , 1994 .

[17]  S. Hennessy,et al.  Problem-solving processes in technology education: A pilot study , 1994 .

[18]  Kathryn T. Spoehr,et al.  Enhancing the acquisition of conceptual structures through hypermedia , 1994 .

[19]  James D. Hollan,et al.  KidPad: a design collaboration between children, technologists, and educators , 1997, CHI.

[20]  Samuel Richmond.  Report to the President on the Use of Technology to Strengthen K-12 Education in the United States , 1998 .

[21]  Ann Marie Hill,et al.  Problem Solving in Real-Life Contexts: An Alternative for Design in Technology Education , 1998 .

[22]  James A. Hendler,et al.  Designing PETS: a personal electronic teller of stories , 1999, CHI '99.

[23]  Allison Druin,et al.  Cooperative inquiry: developing new technologies for children with children , 1999, CHI '99.

[24]  Paul Brna,et al.  Classroom Conundrums: The Use of a Participant Design Methodology , 2000, J. Educ. Technol. Soc..

[25]  Theodore Lewis.  Technology Education and Developing Countries , 2000 .

[26]  B. Bederson,et al.  Designing storytelling technologies to encouraging collaboration between young children , 2000, CHI.

[27]  James A. Hendler,et al.  Designing StoryRooms: interactive storytelling spaces for children , 2000, DIS '00.

[28]  Allison Druin,et al.  Designing a Digital Library for Young Children: An Intergenerational Partnership , 2001 .

[29]  Allison Druin,et al.  KidStory: A technology design partnership with children , 2001, Behav. Inf. Technol..

[30]  Allison Druin,et al.  The role of children in the design of new technology , 2002 .