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Co-design with Children: Using Participatory Design for Design Thinking and Social and Emotional Learning

Paracha, Samiuallah, Hall, Lynne, Clawson, Kathy, Mitsche, Nicole and Jamil, Fatima (2019) Co-design with Children: Using Participatory Design for Design Thinking and Social and Emotional Learning. Open Education Studies, 1 (1). pp. 267-280. ISSN 2544-7831

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Abstract

This paper discusses leveraging design thinking techniques for involving children in serious game design in Japanese elementary schools. Our action research project approach accomplished two different goals: (1) to inculcate design thinking in pupils, and (2) to sensitize children on bullying victimization. Our approach uses a range of participatory design methods to distill design ideas from children and to support their design thinking aiming to boost children’s creative confidence and develop social and emotional skills. Key findings from our project are: (1) children made valuable design contributions including realistic bullying scenarios, language content, user interface design, storyline progression, character profiles, coping strategies etc., and (2) participatory design and design thinking stimulated ethical reasoning, reflection and empathy in children on bullying victimization. Our approach is unique in the current design thinking landscape, because it moves from designing “thing” (object) to designing “think” (bullying sensitization). Future research should focus on highlighting ways how participatory design and design thinking enrich and complement each other. The significance of our paper stems from the simple standpoint that those participating in a design should gain from participating in the design process. Takeaways for practitioners are: (1) building relationships with stakeholders, especially children (2) empathy and user research techniques, (2) translating field data into usable insights, (3) idea-generation and rapid concept development, (4) product co-prototyping, (5) user engagement and co-creation, (6) multiple perspectives on effective communication.

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Item ID: 12028
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1515/edu-2019-0021
ISSN: 2544-7831
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/12028
Official URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/edu/1/1/ar...

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Lynne Hall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5090-1980
ORCID for Kathy Clawson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8431-1524
ORCID for Nicole Mitsche: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2479-2749

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Date Deposited: 15 May 2020 08:24
Last Modified: 08 Jul 2022 14:23

Contributors

Author: Lynne Hall ORCID iD
Author: Kathy Clawson ORCID iD
Author: Nicole Mitsche ORCID iD
Author: Samiuallah Paracha
Author: Fatima Jamil

University Divisions

Faculty of Technology > School of Computer Science

Subjects

Computing > Games Design
Computing > Human-Computer Interaction

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