A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Participating Elementary School Children in UI Design Process of Learning Environment: Case KidNet
Authors: Tapola Mirva, Mäkilä Tuomas, Erdmann Norbert, Mikkilä-Erdmann Mirjamaija
Editors: Rocha Álvaro, Adeli Hojjat, Dzemyda Gintautas, Moreira Fernando, Poniszewska-Marańda Aneta
Conference name: World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Publishing place: Cham
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Lecture notes in networks and systems
Book title : Good Practices and New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies : WorldCIST 2024, Volume 4
Series title: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume: 988
First page : 153
Last page: 164
ISBN: 978-3-031-60223-8
eISBN: 978-3-031-60224-5
ISSN: 2367-3370
eISSN: 2367-3389
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60224-5_17
Web address : https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-60224-5_17
User interfaces are a significant part of websites, but even when websites are targeted at children, the UIs are designed by adults. Adults do not remember what it is like to be a child, yet children have usually been excluded from the design process, even when they are an important user group. The main goal of this study was to find a way to include 6th graders in the design process so that they could express what kind of UI elements they like. This study was conducted by organizing short design sessions where children got to choose their favorite UI elements from different design alternatives and use them to build a low-tech prototype of a UI. We found that the results produced with this method were sensible and revealed valuable information about children's UI preferences.
