Promoting Early Adolescents’ Tech Disengagement: Designing Digital Interventions by Involving End Users in Meta-design

Abstract

Children’s technology overuse is a pressing issue in today’s digital era, particularly challenging with early adolescents, as they assert independence. Existing parental control tools targeting this issue often overlook early adolescents’ perspectives, resulting in resistance towards interventions. In this paper, we first discuss our approach of involving early adolescents in participatory design to understand their needs and perspectives. We then share how we involved both early adolescents and their parents in formative design, exploring feedback on various design concepts to further investigate users’ preferences. Finally, we outline our future plans to explore a persona-based approach to integrate tailoring activities into the digital intervention. Inspired by research in enduser development, this approach aims to accommodate the diverse needs of early adolescents and their families.

Publisher Link

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3778/

Citation

Ananta Chowdhury, Timmy Wang and Andrea Bunt. 2024. Promoting Early Adolescents’ Tech Disengagement: Designing Digital Interventions by Involving End Users in Meta-design. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Participatory Design & End-User Development - Building Bridges (PDEUD2024), October 2024, Uppsala, Sweden.