Insights from Youth Co-designers on Remote Multimodal Prototyping with Paper Playground
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Brett L Fiedler, Taliesin L. Smith, Jesse Greenberg, Ann Eisenberg, Emily B. MooreAuthors Info & Claims
Brett L Fiedler, Taliesin L. Smith, Jesse Greenberg, Ann Eisenberg, Emily B. MooreAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 818 - 822
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Paper prototyping presents a low-entry barrier method to engaging youth in interaction design. Purely paper-based designs leave a large gap between ideation and implementation. Paper Playground is a prototyping tool that connects physical and virtual papers with JavaScript programs, enabling the creation of multimodal prototypes in both face-to-face and virtual settings. Paper Playground is being designed and developed through iterative co-design activities including youth and adults. Here we present findings from remote co-design sessions with youth, investigating what affordances the participants requested from a multimodal prototyping tool. We reflect on the co-designers desires and remarks on paper use for interactive project design, remote collaborative use, and extensibility for physical computing.
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