TY - JOUR

T1 - Interpersonal expression in the special educational needs classroom

T2 - an experience-centred design case study

AU - Durrant, Abigail

AU - Hook, Jonathan

AU - McNaney, Roisin

AU - Williams, Keir

AU - Smith, Thomas

AU - Stockman, Tony

AU - Olivier, Patrick

PY - 2014/1

Y1 - 2014/1

N2 - This paper describes our Experience-Centered Design (ECD) enquiry into the current and potential role of digital photography to support interpersonal expression in a class of children (aged 11-15 years) at a mixed special education needs school. Presented as a case study, we describe five classroom-based creative workshops that engaged pupils with a broad range of complex special needs, and classroom staff. From these workshops, we generated a set of qualitative considerations for the design of digital photographic tools to support interpersonal expression in this setting. Additionally, we present the evaluation of a photo-sorting system we developed in response to our workshop findings and evaluated in the school over a period of 12 months. Our case study demonstrates how an ECD approach can guide a creative interaction design process in a special education needs setting, supporting interaction designers in empathising and responding pragmatically to the complex and dynamic interactions at play between the stakeholders. We further discuss design research approaches to user groups in such settings, and consolidate our insights about conducting research through design for social inclusion.

AB - This paper describes our Experience-Centered Design (ECD) enquiry into the current and potential role of digital photography to support interpersonal expression in a class of children (aged 11-15 years) at a mixed special education needs school. Presented as a case study, we describe five classroom-based creative workshops that engaged pupils with a broad range of complex special needs, and classroom staff. From these workshops, we generated a set of qualitative considerations for the design of digital photographic tools to support interpersonal expression in this setting. Additionally, we present the evaluation of a photo-sorting system we developed in response to our workshop findings and evaluated in the school over a period of 12 months. Our case study demonstrates how an ECD approach can guide a creative interaction design process in a special education needs setting, supporting interaction designers in empathising and responding pragmatically to the complex and dynamic interactions at play between the stakeholders. We further discuss design research approaches to user groups in such settings, and consolidate our insights about conducting research through design for social inclusion.

KW - Child-computer interaction

KW - Digital photography

KW - Experience-centred design

KW - Inclusive design

KW - Special educational needs

KW - Universal design

U2 - 10.1016/j.ijcci.2014.06.002

DO - 10.1016/j.ijcci.2014.06.002

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:84955515242

VL - 2

SP - 34

EP - 47

JO - International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

JF - International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

SN - 2212-8689

IS - 1

ER -