Mapping children's experiences: Adapting contextmapping tools to child participants

Mapping children's experiences: Adapting contextmapping tools to child participants

Gielen, M.A.

Industrial Design Engineering

Industrial Design

2013-06-10

Within the area of user-centered design, Contextmapping is an approach to participatory user experience research that provides designers and user researchers with a clear workflow and hands-on toolkit. It acknowledges the user as the expert of his or her own experiences and aims to deliver rich insights to designers: deep, authentic and inspiring views into the personal lives and experiences of prospective users. This approach is originally developed for use with adult participants. As it gets applied with child participants, some adaptations are necessary to meet children’s skills (both cognitively and social-emotionally) and motivations. We conducted a series of research projects on aspects of Contextmapping and design cases where Contextmapping has been applied in child-centered formats. Some barriers and enablers were identified with which the role of children as informants in a design process can be further enhanced.

design methods
co-design
informant design
children
Contextmapping

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:16f9f00e-efe8-42b2-a91f-aa6c599a2bec

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

978-87-7830-316-5

Nordes 2013: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic Design Research Conference "Experiments in Design Research", Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-12 June 2013

Institutional Repository

conference paper

(c) 2013 Gielen, M.A.