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Co-Designing "Teenovate": An Intergenerational Online Safety Design Team, Arianna J. Davis
Co-Designing "Teenovate": An Intergenerational Online Safety Design Team, Arianna J. Davis
Honors Undergraduate Theses
The Socio-Technical Interaction Research (STIR) Lab at UCF intends to create a new participatory design program, called "Teenovate," where teenagers and adults work together to design technologies that keep teens safe online. Previous participatory design projects, however, commonly focus on younger children under the age of 13. Teens differ significantly from young children in how they develop, socialize, and perceive the world. To inform the design of Teenovate, so that their unique needs are appropriately met, we conducted a participatory design study with 21 teens using polls, open-ended response questions, and subsequent group discussions. The teens were intrigued by the …