Mapping Child Care Access in King County
Rebecca Michelson · Interaction Design and Children · 2022
In this submission, I discuss my participatory design research on mapping and data visualization of childcare access in King County of Washington in the United States. Through a co-design process with a childcare business coalition, I investigate the affordances of a data-driven website for advocacy and social change. As grassroots coalitions begin to build economic and operational capacity from self-organizing, they break down silos within a fragmented childcare ecosystem. This proposed dissertation work aims to provide a means for an effective collaboration between public-sector and academic HCI partners in the iterative development of an online tool for structural changes to childcare access in King County.