TY - GEN
T1 - Design to support interpersonal communication in the special educational needs classroom
AU - Durrant, Abigail
AU - Hook, Jonathan
AU - McNaney, Roisin
AU - Williams, Keir
AU - Smith, Thomas
AU - Kipling, Mathew
AU - Stockman, Tony
AU - Olivier, Patrick
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper describes our Experience-centered Design (ECD) inquiry into the current and potential role of digital photography to support interpersonal communication and expression in a class at a mixed special education needs school. Presented as a case study, we describe five classroom-based Creative Photography workshops that engaged pupils with a broad range of complex special needs, along with classroom staff. We further describe how, from these workshops, we generated a set of qualitative considerations for the design of digital photographic tools to support interpersonal communication and expression in this setting. Additionally, we present the preliminary evaluation of a photo-sorting tool that we developed in response. Our case study demonstrates how an ECD approach can guide an interaction design process in a special education needs setting, supporting interaction designers in understanding and responding pragmatically to the complex and dynamic interactions at play between the stakeholders.
AB - This paper describes our Experience-centered Design (ECD) inquiry into the current and potential role of digital photography to support interpersonal communication and expression in a class at a mixed special education needs school. Presented as a case study, we describe five classroom-based Creative Photography workshops that engaged pupils with a broad range of complex special needs, along with classroom staff. We further describe how, from these workshops, we generated a set of qualitative considerations for the design of digital photographic tools to support interpersonal communication and expression in this setting. Additionally, we present the preliminary evaluation of a photo-sorting tool that we developed in response. Our case study demonstrates how an ECD approach can guide an interaction design process in a special education needs setting, supporting interaction designers in understanding and responding pragmatically to the complex and dynamic interactions at play between the stakeholders.
KW - Digital photography
KW - Experience-centred design
KW - Interaction design for children
KW - Special education needs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84880553281&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2485760.2485778
DO - 10.1145/2485760.2485778
M3 - Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
AN - SCOPUS:84880553281
SN - 9781450319188
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 46
EP - 55
BT - Proceedings of IDC 2013 - The 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
T2 - 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2013
Y2 - 24 June 2013 through 27 June 2013
ER -
