Designing spoken instructions with preschool children
Hanna Niemi, Saila Ovaska · 2007
The participation of children in the technology design process is often enabled by drawing, low-tech prototyping, and collecting their experiences with hands-on trials as a basis for new designs. We report on a well-defined design task with six-year-old children as design partners, where no concrete prototyping methods were available. The children were able to contribute to the design of instructions. We found that children had little problems designing with speech when the goal was well defined. However, the children had problems in building up on the ideas presented by others.