TY - GEN
T1 - Community design of community simulations
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
AU - Carroll, John
AU - Seals, Cheryl D.
AU - Lewis, Tracy L.
PY - 2002/12/1
Y1 - 2002/12/1
N2 - We report on a participatory design workshop in which residents of a community collaborated in learning about and designing projects for a visual simulation environment. Nine participants (five middle school teachers, four senior citizens) first conducted a participatory evaluation of a tutorial developed for the Stagecast Creator simulation tool. They then worked in pairs to brainstorm ideas for Creator simulation projects that would help raise and promote discussion of issues relevant to their community. After sharing these ideas, each pair chose 2 - 3 simulation ideas to refine as a specification for subsequent implementation. We discuss the participants' learning and design activities, as well as their contributions to our long term goal of supporting cross-generational collaboration and learning through community simulation projects.
AB - We report on a participatory design workshop in which residents of a community collaborated in learning about and designing projects for a visual simulation environment. Nine participants (five middle school teachers, four senior citizens) first conducted a participatory evaluation of a tutorial developed for the Stagecast Creator simulation tool. They then worked in pairs to brainstorm ideas for Creator simulation projects that would help raise and promote discussion of issues relevant to their community. After sharing these ideas, each pair chose 2 - 3 simulation ideas to refine as a specification for subsequent implementation. We discuss the participants' learning and design activities, as well as their contributions to our long term goal of supporting cross-generational collaboration and learning through community simulation projects.
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U2 - 10.1145/778712.778726
DO - 10.1145/778712.778726
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:42149147124
SN - 1581135157
SN - 9781581135152
T3 - Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS
SP - 75
EP - 83
BT - Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
T2 - 4th Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS '02
Y2 - 25 June 2002 through 28 June 2002
ER -