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Developing a tested vision for the design of a child participation toolkit for the SWKGroep

Master thesis - M. Welling, M.A. Gielen, P.J. Stappers, Manja Hopmans

This report describes my graduation report for the Master Design for Interaction, part of Industrial Design Engineering at the technical University Delft. The project is in collaboration with both the Play Well Lab and the SWKGroep. The SWKGroep asked for a child participation ...

This report describes my graduation report for the Master Design for Interaction, part of Industrial Design Engineering at the technical University Delft. The project is in collaboration with both the Play Well Lab and the SWKGroep. The SWKGroep asked for a child participation toolkit which would help them discover the latent knowledge of the children. In order to be able to go into depth while designing this toolkit, the project is split up into two individual graduation projects. This report describes the first project. “My design goal is to develop a substantiated and partly tested vision for the development of a child participation Toolkit, which is suitable within the context of the SWKGroep facilities and based on the expectations, wishes, needs and capacity of both the staff members as well as the children.” The first chapter will introduce the different stakeholders involved in the project. These are the SWKGroep and the Play Well Lab. The chapter will conclude with the relevance of this project for both stakeholders. The second chapter will describe the research phase, including different interviews, a generative session and an analysis of the results. The chapter will conclude with the discovered problem area and my design focus within this project. Within the third chapter, an approach for this defined problem area will be defined. The chosen approach will be explained and the chapter concludes with an explanation on why this approach would fit the defined problem area. After describing this approach, the approach will be elaborated into ideas. This is done in chapter 4, which includes the ideation phase. This chapter will end with a set of 23 ideas/tools which could be used for child participation at the BSO. The next step, described in chapter 5, is validation of the approach. This is done by testing a selection of the ideas at the BSO to see what the obstacles and enablers are when doing child participation at the BSO. The insights from the user-tests are discussed and this chapter will conclude with a validation of the approach including conditions to be met and an overview of opportunities which were found during the tests. Chapter 6 will conclude this report with recommendations for the follow-up project and a reflection on this project.