Cooperative inquiry: developing new technologies for children with children
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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We describe a collaborative design project with a group of young people in which an interactive educational information pack for teenagers was implemented. Instead of just providing input to a design project, the young people initiated, controlled and partially implemented the project themselves, with the support of an interdisciplinary research team. Here we present this approach to participatory design research, describe the design process and show that initiative, control, and hands-on engagement in youth-led collaborative design, can bring to the young people a strong sense of ownership and empowerment.