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Bonded design revisited: Involving children in information visualization design

  • McGill University

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Abstract

The article discusses the design process undertaken by an intergenerational team of three adult researchers and seven elementary school students to create, using information visualization techniques, a display of a taxonomy used in a Web-based children's portal. It describes and discusses the application of a user-centred design methodology, Bonded Design, to accomplish this task over 12 sessions. The techniques include viewing and critiquing existing visualizations, brainstorming to generate new ideas, paper prototyping design ideas both individually and in small groups, and building a consensus on a final low-tech

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)107-139
Number of pages33
JournalCanadian Journal of Information and Library Science
Volume32
Issue number3-4
StatePublished - Sep 2008

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