TY - GEN
T1 - Designing to engage children in monitoring indoor air quality
T2 - 2020 Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020
AU - Kim, Sunyoung
AU - Li, Muyang
AU - Senick, Jennifer
AU - Mainelis, Gediminas
PY - 2020/6/21
Y1 - 2020/6/21
N2 - Indoor air quality (IAQ) is especially important for children because they are more susceptible to the deleterious impacts of poor air quality compared to adults. While devices to monitor IAQ are increasingly available, these are designed primarily for adults, and little attention has been paid to their potential use by children. This paper describes an effort to engage children directly in the design of an IAQ visualization interface for children. In engaging children in participatory workshops, we found that they rely heavily on visual, olfactory, and thermal cues to perceive and assess IAQ. Reflecting on these findings and based on design principles for technology for children, we created and tested child-friendly interface prototypes for IAQ visualization. Based on children's input, we designed a final set of visual interfaces that will be implemented in the IAQ monitor. The next study will test and deploy the monitor in the real world.
AB - Indoor air quality (IAQ) is especially important for children because they are more susceptible to the deleterious impacts of poor air quality compared to adults. While devices to monitor IAQ are increasingly available, these are designed primarily for adults, and little attention has been paid to their potential use by children. This paper describes an effort to engage children directly in the design of an IAQ visualization interface for children. In engaging children in participatory workshops, we found that they rely heavily on visual, olfactory, and thermal cues to perceive and assess IAQ. Reflecting on these findings and based on design principles for technology for children, we created and tested child-friendly interface prototypes for IAQ visualization. Based on children's input, we designed a final set of visual interfaces that will be implemented in the IAQ monitor. The next study will test and deploy the monitor in the real world.
KW - children
KW - indoor air quality
KW - participatory studies
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U2 - 10.1145/3392063.3394395
DO - 10.1145/3392063.3394395
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85087421072
T3 - Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020
SP - 323
EP - 334
BT - Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 21 June 2020 through 24 June 2020
ER -