Design for inspiration: children, personal connections and educational technology

Authors:
Peta Wyeth;Carla Diercke;Stephen Viller
Affiliations:
University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia;University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia;University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Venue:
OZCHI '06 Proceedings of the 18th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Design: Activities, Artefacts and Environments
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The project is working towards building an understanding of the personal interests and experiences of children with the aim of designing appropriate, usable and, most importantly, inspirational educational technology. kidprobe, an adaptation of the technology probe concept, has been used as a lightweight method of gaining contextual information about children's interactions with 'fun' technology. kidprobe has produced design inspiration which focuses primarily on the social and emotional connections children made. The use of kidprobe has generated some important ideas for improving the use of probes with children. It is an important first step in understanding how to effectively adapt probing techniques to inspire the design of technology for children.