TY - GEN
T1 - The evolution of engagements and social bonds during child-parent co-design
AU - Yip, Jason C.
AU - Clegg, Tamara
AU - Ahn, June
AU - Uchidiuno, Judith Odili
AU - Bonsignore, Elizabeth
AU - Beck, Austin
AU - Pauw, Daniel
AU - Mills, Kelly
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank all of the children, parents, and community members who played an integral role in this project. We thank the anonymous reviewers and members of the HCIL and DUB groups for their feedback on this paper. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1441523. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
PY - 2016/5/7
Y1 - 2016/5/7
N2 - Partnering with parents and children in the design process can be important for producing technologies that take into consideration the rich context of family life. However, to date, few studies have examined the actual process of designing with families and their children. Without understanding the process, we risk making poor design choices in user-interactive experiences that take into account important family dynamics. The purpose of this investigation is to understand how parent-child relationships in families shape co-design processes and how they are reshaped through co-design. We document the evolutionary process and outcomes that exist in co-design partnerships between researchers and families. We found that parents' engagement patterns shifted more slowly than that of children's from observing and facilitating to design partnering practices. Our analysis suggests the importance of establishing and nurturing social bonds among parents, children, and researchers in the co-design process.
AB - Partnering with parents and children in the design process can be important for producing technologies that take into consideration the rich context of family life. However, to date, few studies have examined the actual process of designing with families and their children. Without understanding the process, we risk making poor design choices in user-interactive experiences that take into account important family dynamics. The purpose of this investigation is to understand how parent-child relationships in families shape co-design processes and how they are reshaped through co-design. We document the evolutionary process and outcomes that exist in co-design partnerships between researchers and families. We found that parents' engagement patterns shifted more slowly than that of children's from observing and facilitating to design partnering practices. Our analysis suggests the importance of establishing and nurturing social bonds among parents, children, and researchers in the co-design process.
KW - Children
KW - Co-design
KW - Families
KW - Methods and techniques
KW - Parents
KW - Participatory design
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U2 - 10.1145/2858036.2858380
DO - 10.1145/2858036.2858380
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015081471
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 3607
EP - 3619
BT - CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016
Y2 - 7 May 2016 through 12 May 2016
ER -