Design to support interpersonal communication in the special educational needs classroom

Abigail Durrant; Jonathan David Hook; Roisin McNaney; Keir Williams; Thomas Smith; Matthew Kipling; Tony Stockman; Patrick Olivier

doi:10.1145/2485760.2485778

Design to support interpersonal communication in the special educational needs classroom

Abigail Durrant, Jonathan David Hook, Roisin McNaney, Keir Williams, Thomas Smith, Matthew Kipling, Tony Stockman, Patrick Olivier

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

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Abstract

This paper describes our Experience-centered Design (ECD) inquiry into the current and potential role of digital photography to support interpersonal communication and expression in a class at a mixed special education needs school. Presented as a case study, we describe five classroom-based Creative Photography workshops that engaged pupils with a broad range of complex special needs, along with classroom staff. We further describe how, from these workshops, we generated a set of qualitative considerations for the design of digital photographic tools to support interpersonal communication and expression in this setting. Additionally, we present the preliminary evaluation of a photo-sorting tool that we developed in response. Our case study demonstrates how an ECD approach can guide an interaction design process in a special education needs setting, supporting interaction designers in understanding and responding pragmatically to the complex and dynamic interactions at play between the stakeholders.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Publisher	ACM
Pages	46-55
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1918-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2485760.2485778
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2013 - New York, United States Duration: 24 Jun 2013 → 24 Jun 2013

Conference

Conference	ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	24/06/13 → 24/06/13

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Durrant, A, Hook, JD, McNaney, R, Williams, K, Smith, T, Kipling, M, Stockman, T & Olivier, P 2013, Design to support interpersonal communication in the special educational needs classroom. in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. ACM, pp. 46-55, ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2013, New York, United States, 24/06/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2485760.2485778

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