Stakeholder-Informed Prioritization (SIP): A Technique for Quickly Gauging Research and Design Priorities
Qiao Jin, Leah Ajmani, Samantha Singh, Adhitya Balasubramanian, Svetlana Yarosh · 2025
As technology plays a growing role in children's lives, incorporating their perspectives is crucial for shaping future research and design.This paper introduces a lightweight technique, called Stakeholder-Informed Prioritization (SIP), designed to help childinvolved groups quickly get informed about and prioritize research and design directions.We demonstrate the use of SIP through a case study focused on Virtual Reality (VR), a technology that is rapidly gaining popularity among younger users but remains underexplored from their point of view.We piloted SIP with 34 groups of children (aged 8 to 18) and their families during a community event.Our results show that participants in these groups can successfully complete SIPs and are generally satisfied with the results.