Examining Adult-Child Interactions in Intergenerational Participatory Design
summary
A new framework argues that adult-child co-design unfolds across four measurable dimensions—relationship building, facilitation, design-by-doing, and elaborating together—each ranging from unbalanced (adult- or child-dominant) to balanced partnership. Grounded in a year of KidsTeamUW data (36 ninety-minute sessions, 13 children ages 7–11, adults from undergrads to researchers), the analysis shows concrete behaviors (adults scaffolding tasks, getting to eye level, sharing tools, children directing actions) and proposes using the framework to assess equity and to design better co-design sessions.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:16Adult-Child Interactions in Participatory Design
- 2:55Research Questions
- 6:59Empirical Study
- 7:30Data Collection
- 7:41Grounded Theory Approach
- 10:18Facilitation
- 12:42The Unbalanced Partnership
- 13:49Utility of the Framework
- 14:45Three Takeaways
- 15:10Connections in the Dimensions
- 15:48Conclusion
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