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Title: Teens and pets as participatory design partners
Participatory Design (PD) aims to minimize the unintended consequences of designs and innovations by inviting users to engage in the process (Muller & Druin, 2012). Designing with some users—for example, pets—is challenging because pets communicate in unique ways. But it holds promise because pets and humans are companions. Expecting teens' relationships with pets to motivate them to be co-designers, we organized a virtual summer workshop engaging teens in activities to understand their canine and feline pets better and design an experience to improve their pets’ lives. We analyzed video recordings of teens' engagement at the camp and their descriptions of their experience design projects using qualitative thematic analysis. We found that caring and loving relationships with pets are also contexts for engaging in a systematic design process.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1736051
PAR ID:
10340856
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Weinberger, A.; Chen, W.; Hernández-Leo, D.; Chen, B.
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning - CSCL 2022
ISSN:
1573-4552
Page Range / eLocation ID:
386-389
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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