NDLI: Kidsteam : Developing an Environment for Geographically Distributed , Intergenerational Participatory Design

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Kidsteam : Developing an Environment for Geographically Distributed , Intergenerational Participatory Design

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Walsh, Greg
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	As more children’s technologies are designed to be used with a global audience, new tools need to be created to include more children’s voices in the design process. However, working with those children who are geographically distributed as design partners is difficult because existing technologies either do not support distributed design, or are not child-friendly. In this paper, we describe the design process of an online environment to support geographically distributed, intergenerational participatory design. Within this environment, children can work together despite differences of time zones, geographic location, or availability. The online environment was deployed for eight weeks during the summer and was modified each week throughout that time to better support the participants. Observations, activity logs, design artifacts, and interviews informed the iterative design of the environment. For the first six weeks, participants were located throughout the United States and accessed the environment when they wanted from where they wanted. In the final two weeks, some participants accessed the environment while co-located and other participants continued to participate from their own locations in other time zones. Based on the experiences of participants within the environment, we make suggestions for new technologies including user management tools, creative expression tools, and ad hoc team membership including a novel way for co-located users to log in and collaborate on the same computer.
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://home.ubalt.edu/gwalsh/kidsteam/OKTevolution-final.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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