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Mixing ideas: a new technique for working with young children as design partners

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Mona Leigh Guha,

Jerry Alan Fails,

Allison FarberAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '04: Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Interaction design and children: building a community

Pages 35 - 42

https://doi.org/10.1145/1017833.1017838

Published: 01 June 2004 Publication History

Abstract

This paper sets forth a new technique for working with young children as design partners. Mixing ideas is presented as an additional Cooperative Inquiry design technique used to foster effective collaboration with young children (ages 4-6). The method emerged from our work with children on the Classroom of the Future project at the University of Maryland. A case study of this work is presented along with the implications of this method for future research.

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