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Kid Pad: A design collaboration between children, technologists, and educators

Overview

The article summarizes the collaboration experience between adult experts and children in designing KidPad, an expressive digital medium with an intuitive interface. It describes the goals of the application development, user profile and the design process.

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• Papers and Reports

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• Researchers

Topic Area (Select the general topic area for this Resource- choose sa many as apply, delete the rest. Add new if relevant)

• Technology Studies
• Other: Participatory Design

Author(s)

Allison Druin

Jason Stewart

David Proft

Ben Bederson

Jim Hollan 

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• Material is in public domain

Keywords/Tags

children, design techniques, cooperative design, educational applications, evaluation, participatory design, social issues, Pad++, KidPad

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http://sigchi.org/chi97/proceedings/briefing/ajd2.htm

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Review and Wiki

• Paper describes how Children, Technologists and Educators collaborated to design KidPad