Developmentally Situated Design

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There is a wealth of theoretical knowledge about the developmental abilities and skills of children. However, this knowledge is not readily accessible to designers of interactive products. In this project, we are developing and evaluating developmentally situated design (DSD) cards. DSD cards are a design tool that makes age specific information about children’s developing cognitive, physical, social, and emotional abilities readily accessible for designers.

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• All years2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007200620042003All typesJournal ArticlesBachelor ThesesBooksBook ChaptersProceedings ArticlesAll authors Adibi, AzadehAlissa N. Antle Alexandra Kitson, Sadhbh Kenny Alexandra Kitson, Petr Slovak Alper, Meryl Annie,& Antle, A. N. Antle, A. N. Antle, Alissa Antle, Alissa N Antle, Alissa N. Antle, Alissa Nicole Antle, A. NA.N. Antle, Chesick Antle, Alissa Antle, Alissa N Antle, Alissa N. Bai, Zhen Baishya, UddipanaS. Bakker, Antle Bakker, Saskia Barr, Ronald G. Baykal, Gökçe Elif Bekker, Tilde Bevans, Allen Bevans, A Bevans, Allen Bizzocchi, Jim Blikstein, Paulo Bonsignore, Elizabeth Bowes, John Brant, Rollin Cafaro, Francesco Cai, Zhenyao Candau, Yves Castell, S. De Castell, Suzanne Chan, Melissa Chen, Mandy Chesick, Leslie Cheung, Victor Choo, Amber Clegg, Tamara Cole, Amelia W. Corness, Greg Corness, Greg Corness, Greg J. Cramer, E Cramer, Emily S. Currin, Flannery Hope Dao-Kroeker, Zoe Dao-Kroeker, Zoe Minh-Tam Dash, Punyashlok Davoodi, Alireza Deng, Ying Desnoyers-Stewart, John Dindler, Christian Doering, TanjaM. Droumeva, Antle Droumeva, Milena Eckersley, Rachael el-Nasr, Magy Seif Eriksson, Eva Esteves, Augusto Fails, Jerry Alan Fairbrother, Nichole Fan, Jianyu Fan, Michelle Fan, Min Fiedler, Holly Forghani, Azadeh Garzotto, Franca Giannakos, Michail Gong, Yunfan Gonzalez, Carina S. Gromala, Diane Gross, James Ha, Daniel Hall, Amanda Hatala, Marek Hennessy, Kate Hennessy, Kate Hillman, Serena Hoskyn, Maureen Hourcade, Juan Pablo Hoven, Elise Hoven, Elise Van Den Höysniemi, J. Hsiao, Ying-Ting Hummels, Caroline Ibrahim, Seray B Isbister, Katherine Iversen, Ole Sejer Jacobs, Katrien Jenson, J. Jenson, Jennifer Jin, Sheng Johnson, Naomi Jones, Brennan Judge, Tejinder K. Kenny, S. Khan, Md Nafiz Hasan Kientz, Julie A. Kitson, Alexandra Kumpulainen, Kristiina Landoni, Monica Larios, Hector Levisohn, Aaron Lin, Anna Lo, P. Y. Lu, Zhicong Lyons, Leilah Blakeney Macaranas, Anna MacFarlane, S. Macret, Matthieu Markopoulos, P. Markopoulos, Panos Marshall, Paul Matkin, Brendan B. Matkin, Brendan Matkin, Brendan May, Aaron Mazalek, Ali McLaren, Elgin Skye McLaren, Elgin-Skye Medina, Nuria Medina Miller, Erica Mills, Chelsea Milne, Andrew P. Motamedi, Nima Muntean, Reese Muntean, Reese Murai, Yumiko Murai, Yumiko Neustaedter, Carman Neustaedter, Carman Nielsen, Kristine Nikki Theofanopoulou, Alissa N. Antle Nowroozi, Saba O'Brien, Heather Oakley, Ian Ooi, Yee Loong Pan, Rui Pasquier, Philippe Pekçetin, Serkan Pullin, Graham Quesnel, Denise T. Quintana, Chris Radu, Iulian Read, J. C. Read, Janet Revelle, Glenda Riecke, B. E. Riecke, Bernhard E. Rieke, Bernhard Robinson, John Rogers, Yvonne Roquet, Claudia Daudén Roussou, Maria Rowley, Susan Rowley, Susan Rubegni, Elisa Sadka, Ofir Sarker, Shubhra Schmuecker, Summer Seaborn, Katie Shaer, Orit Shahid, SulemanNaghmi Shireen, Erhan Singhal, Samarth Slovak, Petr Smith, David Harris Speelpenning, Tess Sridharan, Srilekha Kirshnamachari Sylla, Cristina Maria Tan, Perry Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum, Karen Tanenbaum, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Theresa Tang, Anthony Theofanopoulou, Nikki Ullmer, Brygg Veldhuis, Annemiek Veldhuis, A. Veldhuis, Annemiek Vidyarthi, J. Vidyarthi, Jay Vincent, Amal Vu, Manh C. Wakkary, Ron Walsh, Greg Wang, Sijie Warren, Jill Warren, Jillian L Warren, Jillian L. Warren, JillianA. Willis, Wise Wilson, Jordan Wilson, Jordan Wise, Alyssa F. Wise, Alyssa FriendA. F. Wise, Antle Xiao, Qinqin Xie, Lesley Xie, Zhen Lesley Yarosh, Svetlana Yip, Jason Zhou, Xiaofei Zhou, Yushan

  2011

  Bekker, Tilde, Antle, Alissa N.

  Developmentally Situated Design (DSD): Making Theoretical Knowledge Accessible to Designers of Children's Technology Proceedings Article

  In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2531–2540, Association for Computing Machinery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2011, ISBN: 9781450302289.

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  @inproceedings{10.1145/1978942.1979312,
  
  title = {Developmentally Situated Design (DSD): Making Theoretical Knowledge Accessible to Designers of Children's Technology},
  
  author = {Tilde Bekker and Alissa N. Antle},
  
  url = {https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1145/1978942.1979312},
  
  doi = {10.1145/1978942.1979312},
  
  isbn = {9781450302289},
  
  year  = {2011},
  
  date = {2011-01-01},
  
  urldate = {2011-01-01},
  
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  
  pages = {2531–2540},
  
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  
  address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
  
  series = {CHI '11},
  
  abstract = {There is a wealth of theoretical knowledge about the developmental abilities and skills of children. However, this knowledge is not readily accessible to designers of interactive products. In this paper, we present the requirements, design and evaluation of developmentally situated design (DSD) cards. DSD cards are a design tool that makes age specific information about children's developing cognitive, physical, social, and emotional abilities readily accessible for designers. Initial requirements were elicited through interviews with design practitioners and students. The cards were evaluated through a design-in-use study in which design students used the cards to address three different design problems. Our analysis of observational notes and post-design interviews revealed how the cards' characteristics enabled different kinds of uses including framing, orienting, inspiring, informing, integrating and constraining. We conclude with a discussion of possible refinements and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of our approach.},
  
  keywords = {},
  
  pubstate = {published},
  
  tppubtype = {inproceedings}
  
  }
  
  

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  There is a wealth of theoretical knowledge about the developmental abilities and skills of children. However, this knowledge is not readily accessible to designers of interactive products. In this paper, we present the requirements, design and evaluation of developmentally situated design (DSD) cards. DSD cards are a design tool that makes age specific information about children's developing cognitive, physical, social, and emotional abilities readily accessible for designers. Initial requirements were elicited through interviews with design practitioners and students. The cards were evaluated through a design-in-use study in which design students used the cards to address three different design problems. Our analysis of observational notes and post-design interviews revealed how the cards' characteristics enabled different kinds of uses including framing, orienting, inspiring, informing, integrating and constraining. We conclude with a discussion of possible refinements and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of our approach.

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  • https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1145/1978942.1979312
  • doi:10.1145/1978942.1979312

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