Promoting Criticality with Design Futuring with Young Children
As children's everyday interaction with emerging technologies increases, they need to develop criticality to navigate ethical impacts of technology and when imagining futures with technology. We explore how design futuring can facilitate children's criticality through four different workshops with children from India, Finland, and the USA. Participants imagined futures with technologies while critically considering ethical impacts. In the findings, themes related to empowerment and ethics emerged in children's imagined futures. We discuss promoting criticality and empowerment with children's imagined futures, and how these futures can respond to diverse, local issues based on their lived experiences. Our work diversifies design research by highlighting local futures, and the criticality of those imagined futures, from children across the world.
Authors
- Marianne Kinnula (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1582-8869)
- Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3672-3070)
- L. van der Velden
- Jussi Okkonen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7207-045X)
- Leena Ventä-Olkkonen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8349-3119)
- Netta Iivari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7420-2890)
- Elisa Rubegni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6375-7604)
- Eva Durall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1778-5804)
- Noura Howell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7296-2714)
- Heidi Hartikainen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1215-6745)
- Grace Eden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9647-6799)
- Michael Nitsche
- Uttishta Sreerama Varanasi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3039-965X)
- Supratim Pait (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7213-1973)
- Sumita Sharma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1267-282X)
Institutions
- HAN University of Applied Sciences (NL)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Tampere University (FI)
- University of Tartu (EE)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- University of Oulu (FI)
- Aalto University (FI)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
- Published
- 2024-09-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3679318.3685335
- Citations
- 11
- Primary Topic
- Design Education and Practice
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 9.84