School of Social Work, Care and Community

School of Social Work, Care and Community

Seminar/workshop series: Innovative Tools for Participatory Research with Children and Young People

The Interpretation and Exploitation of Children's Design ideas - Challenges in Participatory Research

Janet Read

(Professor in Child Computer Interaction,

University of Central Lancashire)

16 November 2016

3.30-5.30pm, Greenbank Building, room 204

This interactive seminar will introduce the audience to the ethical use of children's designs in the development of commercial technology products.Based on work that has spanned up-state New York, Madagascar and Uganda, the seminar will begin with a brief introduction to the ChiCI for Africa project and will then go on to explain the ChECK tools used by the ChiCI group to frame design activities.A pseudo-design activity will then be used to situate the follow on discussion which will focus on the use and interpretation of children's design ideas including the use of tools like the RAid method and the TRaLa models.The seminar will appeal to anyone who has worked in participatory research with children.Itwill suit those wondering about the ethics of participation and those interested in how technology can and might be used to improve the lives of children in under-developed regions.

Originally a teacher of Mathematics, Janet Read moved into academia in the late 1990s with a mission to make speech recognition work for her third daughter.This mission was soon proved to be impossible but, in the pursuit of technologies that work for all children, Professor Read has since become one of the best known international researchers in Child Computer Interaction with over 150 peer reviewed articles in this discipline.In this role she is the chair of the IFIP TC13 group on Interaction Design and Children, editor in chief of the Elsevier Journal of Child Computer Interaction and has twice been the programme chair for the ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.Her research work broadly spans three themes – design for children across cultures, the application of ‘fun’ and ‘cool’ to technologies for children and teens, and the ethical representation of children's views in technology design.

Our seminars are free, including refreshments.

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