Within the area of user-centered
design, Contextmapping is an approach to
participatory user experience research
that provides designers and user researchers with a clear workflow and hands-on
toolkit. It acknowledges the user as the expert of his or her own experiences
and aims to deliver rich insights to designers: deep, authentic and inspiring
views into the personal lives and experiences of prospective users. This approach is originally developed for use
with adult participants. As it gets applied with child participants, some
adaptations are necessary to meet children’s skills (both cognitively and
socialemotionally) and motivations. We conducted a series of research projects on aspects of Contextmapping and design cases where Contextmapping has been applied in
child-centered formats. Some barriers
and enablers were identified with which
the role of children as informants in a
design process can be further
enhanced.
Nordic Design Research Conference 2013
