Connecting generations: developing co-design methods for older adults and children

Xie, Bo; Druin, Allison; Fails, Jerry Alan; Massey, Sheri Anita; Golub, Evan; Franckel, Sonia; Schneider, Kiki

doi:10.1080/01449291003793793

Cited by 52 publications

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“…At the end of this session, the older adults expressed that they would like to use the tools and draw for themselves at a later session. This seemed to be in contrast to earlier findings of co-designing with older adults [38]. This could be because of differences in personalities or that the older adults became more confident in their skills as co-designers and may have felt as though their input would matter.…”

Section: Co-design Methodscontrasting

confidence: 77%

“…Technology designers tend to be young adults with a different worldview from older adults, and can have limited understanding of how age-related differences can affect technology use [8]. To ensure the needs and preferences of older adults are fully considered, older adults must be involved in the design and development of technology [38].…”

Section: Participatory Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Co-designing an e-health tutorial for older adults

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Yeh

Walsh

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 2012 iConference

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Older adults' ability to access and use electronic health information is generally low, requiring innovative approaches for improvement. An integrated e-tutorial overlays instructions onto Websites. The literature suggests integrated e-tutorials are more effective than paper or video-based tutorials for younger people, but little is known about their effectiveness for older adults. This study explores the applicability of an integrated e-health tutorial for older adults. An integrated e-tutorial, the Online Tutorial Overlay Presenter (OnTOP), added an instructional overlay to the NIHSeniorHealth.gov Website. Overlay features were examined in seven participatory design sessions with seven older adults. Participatory design techniques were used to elicit participants' preferences for tutorial features. Three themes emerged: 1) using contextual cues; 2) tailoring to the learner's literacy level; and 3) enhancing interfaces with multimedia cues. These findings improved the design features of OnTOP. They also generated empirical evidence about the effects of multimedia learning among older adults.

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Section: Co-design Methodscontrasting

confidence: 77%

Section: Participatory Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Co-designing an e-health tutorial for older adults

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Yeh

Walsh

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 2012 iConference

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“…While successful practices of co-design have been performed in the last decades, only recently developers have been aiming to integrate children in the design process [3,4]. Among challenges, Guha et al [5] pointed children's different communication strategies.…”

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The Effect of Group Games on Children’s Subsequent Impressions of Sketch Tasks and on their Design Outcomes

Fernandes

Yamanaka

2019

IJAE

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Co-designing with children is a recent challenge to the development of new products. Children and designers can express ideas through rough drawings, also called "sketches", but, while drawings are common activities, children can also display lack of confidence or engagement during this task. To motivate children before creating sketches, we considered the administration of group games. This paper tested the effects of different group games on participants' impressions and outcomes in subsequent design sketch tasks. Two studies were performed. In study 1, higher game difficulty was associated with negative impressions and less detailed drawings. By controlling difficulty, in study 2 we found that games positively affected children's confidence with their sketches, which indicated to affect design submissions. Results indicated an immediate effect of games on children's design sketch impressions and outcomes. If negative associations are properly controlled, games can be viable motivators for co-design tasks with children.

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“…[18] All those concepts put human in the center of designing process, there is, however, a small, but significant distinction between user-center design and participatory design: the former refers the process of designing FOR users, while the latter WITH users. [14], [16] Another case is the work done by [19], describing the cooperation between seniors and preschool children in a design task. An interesting observation made in this research was the fact that both groups needed the equal amount of time together and in separation in order to function properly.…”

Section: User Participation and Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Press F1 for help: Participatory design for dealing with on-line and real life security of older adults

Balcerzak

Kopeć

Nielek

et al. 2017

2017 12th International Scientific and Technical Conference on Computer Sciences and Information Technologies (CSIT)

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Abstract-In this paper we present the report on the design and development of a platform for the intergenerational exchange of favors. This platform was designed using participatory design approach during a 24-hour hackathon by a team consisting of younger programmers and older adults. The findings of this report show that inter-generational cooperation in which the older adults serve as representatives of the end user, not only improves the design and development of the application, but also provides an effective method for designing and applying solutions aimed at improving the security of older adults while using online and mobile tools.Index Terms-on-line security, participatory design, codesign, user-center design, older adults, elderly, hackathons, intergenerational interaction and cooperation

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Connecting generations: developing co-design methods for older adults and children

Cited by 52 publications

References 24 publications

Co-designing an e-health tutorial for older adults

Co-designing an e-health tutorial for older adults

The Effect of Group Games on Children’s Subsequent Impressions of Sketch Tasks and on their Design Outcomes

Press F1 for help: Participatory design for dealing with on-line and real life security of older adults

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