Where we Succeed and Fail: Reflecting on the Challenge of doing Research with Children

2022. Janet Read, Oussama Metatla, Matthew Horton, Elisa Rubegni & Jason Yip
Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.

Abstract

Child Computer Interaction has become a field in its own right but it relies on its parent disciplines, HCI, CS, IxD, to train its academics. Research practice in CCI borrows heavily from HCI with an emphasis on the participation of users in research. Training academics to work with children is essential within CCI but this is seldom talked about and in many cases, students are left to learn from mistakes, especially if they are working in groups where there is little expertise in working with children. In this workshop we aim to look at what can go wrong when working with children in a range of contexts including design, evaluation, and research, in schools, homes and other venues, on many different types of projects. We will ‘create’ scenarios of working with participants and seek to identify potential problems and solutions with the aim of building a resource for CCI academics that helps minimize failure and maximise success.

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Citation

Read, J., Metatla, O., Horton, M., Rubegni, E., & Yip, J. (2022). Where we succeed and fail: reflecting on the challenge of doing research with children. Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 712–714).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{read2022we,
  title={Where we Succeed and Fail: Reflecting on the Challenge of doing Research with Children},
  author={Read, Janet and Metatla, Oussama and Horton, Matthew and Rubegni, Elisa and Yip, Jason},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference},
  pages={712--714},
  year={2022}
}