Designing smart objects with autistic children: Four design exposès
C Frauenberger, J Makhaeva, K Spiel - … of the 2016 CHI conference on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
C Frauenberger, J Makhaeva, K Spiel
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems, 2016•dl.acm.orgThis paper describes the design work being conducted as part of the OutsideTheBox project.
Within the time-frame of eight months, we engaged four children with autism in a
participatory design process to develop their own smart object. We re-interpreted Future
Workshops and Co-operative Inquiry to demonstrate that a) autistic children can lead
processes with a deliberately open design brief and b) this leads us to explore design
spaces that are un-imaginable for neuro-typical, adult designers. To capture these four …
Within the time-frame of eight months, we engaged four children with autism in a
participatory design process to develop their own smart object. We re-interpreted Future
Workshops and Co-operative Inquiry to demonstrate that a) autistic children can lead
processes with a deliberately open design brief and b) this leads us to explore design
spaces that are un-imaginable for neuro-typical, adult designers. To capture these four …
This paper describes the design work being conducted as part of the OutsideTheBox project. Within the time-frame of eight months, we engaged four children with autism in a participatory design process to develop their own smart object. We re-interpreted Future Workshops and Co-operative Inquiry to demonstrate that a) autistic children can lead processes with a deliberately open design brief and b) this leads us to explore design spaces that are un-imaginable for neuro-typical, adult designers. To capture these four design cases, we have developed Design Exposes, a concept that is inspired by annotated portfolios and Actor-Network Theory. We apply this concept to our cases and present four exposes that subsequently allow us to draw out intermediate-level design knowledge about co-creating technology with autistic children. We close by critically reflecting on the design processes as well as our concept of capturing them.
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