Interviewing Euijin – HCI for Digital Civics 2015

I interviewed Euijin, and he told me that he is interested in Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) to support children’s learnings and provide playful environment for them. Besides, children could touch and interact with real objects and media display, and they could also join in collaborative learning environments by sharing screen, share experiences depended on their level of ability.

Euijin thinks that participatory design is the most challenging field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), because he is confused on how participatory design is carried out, how could we engage users in designing for them, and how are we going to evaluate the participatory design.

He is interested in facilitating children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptom, because he thinks that these individuals are not cared enough by parents and teachers as they should be in his country, and it is required to assist such children in playing and learning.

I found two papers from ACM Digital Library because of his interest:

1. Extending Attention Span of ADHD Children through an Eye Tracker Directed Adaptive User Interface (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2824997)

2. TangiPlan: Designing an Assistive Technology to Enhance Executive Functioning Among Children with ADHD (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm id=2593968.2610475&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=561369491&CFTOKEN=51624511)

He likes to find out more about Tangible User Interfaces in the rest of the module in order to make people more using tangible objects in real life. In additions he is eager to learn about internet of things on how every object and devices can be connected through internet.

I would recommend him meeting Karen Snowdon who is a volunteer supporting families having ADHD children in Newcastle, so he could find some advices in designing tools that are required to be considered for these children.

Zeinab Shams Aliee says:

November 24, 2015 at 3:13 pm

Tag interviewed me, and the actions that I received from her was:

Explore literature on Mothers and Social Computing
Keep connected with other mothers in different context
Include fathers in the process
Explore the area of Tangible Computing and Children.

I am reading some new papers on mothers and social computing, as well as keeping contacts with other mothers in the nursery. I am trying to include fathers in my research, but not sure how successful I will be. I will also need to explore literature to support tangible computing for children.

All in all, I agree with all the pointed actions in directing me going forward in my research.

Euijin Hwang says:

December 2, 2015 at 9:27 am

Hi Zeinab,

Thank you for the suggestions and comments! I really appreciate it.

To be honest, I actually changed the topic of my research, but I think the references you suggested me are still helpful. I think I already read the one about attention span, but another one (TangiPlan) was not. I will check it out and read it carefully. As I mentioned in the talk, I had big interests with the tangible stuffs because children could have more direct and more situation-based communication with the technologies, and it would have huge impacts on changing children’s behaviour in a playful way (particularly, if they have some problem with length of concentration).

During the interview with you, I just focused on the problems of children with ADHD, but after reading some references that someone else suggested me about critical perspective of disability and social model of disability, I changed my point of view towards the issue a lot.

To explain it briefly, I am now focusing more on the social & community level of issues around the children, not just the issue of the children itself. Now the topic is more open to general school-related people. But I am trying to address a specific issue about parent involvement in school. I am trying to answer the following questions.

How have parents involvement impacts on children’s behaviour?

What are the challenges and the opportunities for parent involvement in school?

How technologies help parents to have better communication with the school?

I also have got these actions to do as below,

Speak to Angelica to learn about participatory design
Taking to teachers and parents of ADHD
Contact Tom Smith: He has done tangible for children
Read the book “Experience-centred design” & speak to Peter

Thanks again for the suggestions above, I will definitely find and contact some parents and teachers to obtain more interpretations about the issues in school environment. Also, It will be great to meet Angelica and Tom Smith to learn what they have been doing and how they did their research related to participatory design and tangible stuffs.

P.S. I actually, contacted Karen Snowdon who was a manager of North East ADHD support group, unfortunately, however, the group was disappeared several months ago.

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