Children as designers of web portals

Andrew Large; Jamshid Beheshti; Valerie Nesset; Leanne Bowler

doi:10.1002/meet.1450400118

Children as designers of web portals

Andrew Large
, Jamshid Beheshti
, Valerie Nesset
, Leanne Bowler

Information Science

University at Buffalo

McGill University

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This paper describes and discusses the process undertaken by a design team comprising both elementary school students and researchers to design a web portal intended for use by children. The team of eight grade-six students and three researchers met twice per week over 12 sessions to design a low-tech prototype. The approach adopted by the team was based upon several design theories related to usability studies: contextual inquiry, participatory design and cooperative inquiry. The advantages of such an inter-generational approach to portal design are presented as well as some of its problems.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	142-149
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting
Volume	40
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.1450400118
State	Published - Oct 2003

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