How Young Can Our Design Partners Be?

Abstract

For this work-in-progress presentation, we report on our experiences working with young children as technology design partners. Our team from the Human-Computer Interaction Lab has extensive participatory design experience in working with 7-11 year old children. Here we describe our first year working with 4-6 year old children and the ways that we altered our methodologies to meet the unique needs of our younger design partners. (Also UMIACS-TR-2002-76) (Also HCI-TR-2002-13)