Mixing ideas: A new technique for working with young children as design partners

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Interaction Design and Children: Building a Community, IDC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 35-42

  Guha, Mona Leigh ^a   Druin, Allison ^a   Chipman, Gene ^a   Fails, Jerry Alan ^a   Simms, Sante ^a   Farber, Allison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Cooperative Inquiry; Design methods; Participatory design

Indexed keywords

MIXING;

CHILDREN; COOPERATIVE INQUIRY; DESIGN METHOD; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND; YOUNG CHILDREN;

DESIGN;

EID: 84957859448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1017833.1017838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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