Interaction Design with Children with Disabilities

Designing interactive technologies for and with children with disabilities is highly complex because of the multi-faceted interplay of needs, abilities, objectives and relevant stakeholders. Involving children with disabilities in the design process promises to increase our understanding about these complexities and allows us to create more meaningful and useful interactive technologies. Facilitating this participation, however, is a challenge in itself and requires us to develop novel techniques, considering the particular contexts, and to critically reflect on our own role and assumptions that shape the process. This workshop will bring together researchers, designers and practitioners in the field to discuss the current state-of-the-art and to share ideas and experiences. The workshop will have two parts focusing on 1) the methodological challenges in involving children with disabilities in the design process and 2) the tacit assumptions, underlying values and philosophical stances that impact on the fundamental decisions we make in working with children with disabilities. Through active group work we aim to identify best

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Deadline: 20th of April 2014