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Involving young girls in product concept design

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Minna Isomursu,

Pekka Isomursu,

Kaisa StillAuthors Info & Claims

CUU '03: Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Universal usability

Pages 98 - 105

https://doi.org/10.1145/957205.957223

Published: 17 June 2002 Publication History

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Young girls are a user group often neglected in the design of technical devices. In this paper, we describe a method for involving pre-teen and teen girls in a concept design process. With this target group we have experienced serious challenges in applying traditional participatory design methods, such as observations or interviews. As a solution, we have adopted a web-based storytelling environment where our target group is encouraged to create usage scenarios of a mobile terminal that would support their activities in a virtual community. Our results show that this approach is a very natural and fruitful method for involving this target group.

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Involving young girls in product concept design
1. Human-centered computing
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CUU '03: Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Universal usability

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Bonsignore EHansen DPellicone AAhn JKraus KShumway SKaczmarek KParkin JCardon JSheets JHoll-Jensen CKoepfler JRead JStenton P(2016)Traversing Transmedia TogetherProceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/2930674.2930712(11-24)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2930674.2930712
Mazzone ERead JBeale RTollmar KJönsson B(2008)Design with and for disaffected teenagersProceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges10.1145/1463160.1463192(290-297)Online publication date: 20-Oct-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1463160.1463192
Dhir AAl-kahtani M(2013)Ubiquitous computing for teenagers: A new perspective on child-computer interaction2013 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS): Social Implications of Wearable Computing and Augmediated Reality in Everyday Life10.1109/ISTAS.2013.6613111(126-135)Online publication date: Jun-2013
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS.2013.6613111

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