Children involvement in participatory design process: A background review

Abstract

Child-Computer Interaction (CCI) research has discovered that there are numerous benefits of involving children in the process of designing new technology. Specifically, children with disabilities have become a potential target of CCI researchers focusing on participation with children in the process of technology design, applying design methods such as participatory design (PD). We aimed to highlight the lack of research that investigates the insight of children with VIs in the technology design process. In addition to the roles that children can play during the design activity. Methods, we identified the PD processes of when children with VIs have been participated in design activity from existing research and conducted a literature review of empirical studies of co-designing with VIs children. The main result shows that children with VIs can play the role of a design partner during the design process. The current state of evidence supports that the PD can have a positive impact on involving children with VIs in the design process.