Design for inspiration: children, personal connections and educational technology

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. Author Keywords Interaction design, children, technology probes, educational technology ACM Classification Keywords H5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI): Miscellaneous.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: OZCHI
• Authors: Peta Wyeth, Carla Diercke, Stephen Viller
• Keywords: Computer Human Interaction, Educational Technology, Inspirational Educational Technology, OZCHI 2006, Technology Probes