Contribution to Book
Family and Design in the IDC and CHI Communities
IDC '12: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
(2012)
Abstract
As members of the HCI community we strive to design technologies that will benefit its intended users whether they are children, young adults, or older adults. The focus of this paper is to survey research related to technologies for families. In so doing we selected papers relating to technologies for families from all nine years of Interaction Design and Children (IDC) community (2003-2011) and then papers from the past 16 years of the larger Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) community (1996-2011). We present a survey of the design methods used in these papers. We identify trends in the technologies and identify the need for further exploration in the realm of participatory design for families.
Keywords
- Design methods,
- technology for families,
- roles of design: user,
- tester,
- informant,
- design partner
Disciplines
Publication Date
2012
Editor
Heidi Schelhowe
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN
9781450310079
DOI
10.1145/2307096.2307102
Citation Information
Sara Isola and Jerry Alan Fails. "Family and Design in the IDC and CHI Communities" New YorkIDC '12: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (2012) p. 40 - 49 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jerry-fails/10/