Organisers

Aurora Constantin is a University Teacher and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh School of In- formatics, UK. Her research focuses on designing technology for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), PD, User-Centred Design (UCD), and Action Research (AR) with various stakeholders. Currently she is working on designing a technology-based tool to support children with ASD to express their creativity during PD. She leads the CISA HCI group.

Jessica Korte is a Postdoctoral Academic at The University of Queensland’s Co-Innovation Group in Queensland, Australia. She is passionate about PD’s potential to empower children. She developed a PD approach for designing with young Deaf children. She hopes to work with Deaf communities and Autistic adults to design language resources, language robots, and learning activities.

Cara Wilson is a PhD student in HCI at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, with an academic background in Psychology and industry background in Autism and Mental Health. She co-designs digital and tangible technologies with minimally-verbal children on the autism spectrum, with particular focus on supporting self-expression, ’voice’, and agency in participatory design.

Cristina Adriana Alexandru is a Research Associate and University Teacher at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, UK. She specialises in UCD, development, and usability evaluation of healthcare systems and tools to cater for the needs of different healthcare practitioners. She has special interests in PD and consideration of the viewpoints of very different user groups. She is also interested in automating usability evaluation of user interfaces in healthcare.

Judith Good is Professor of Interaction Design and Inclusion in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK. Her research interests focus on the co-design of new technologies for children, with and without disabilities. She is also interested in developing new participatory methodologies for typically marginalised populations to have greater involvement in both the design and evaluation of new technologies.

Gavin Sim is a Reader in Human Computer Interaction, he has worked at UCLan since 2002. His research interests are in the area of HCI and educational technology in particular usability / user experience evaluation methods. He is an active researcher within the ChiCI group, where his focus has been on evaluating user experience and usability within games and educational technology. He has written method papers for IDC, and has worked with the BBC.

Janet C. Read is a Professor in Child Computer Interaction and is the Director of the Child Computer Interaction (ChiCI) research group at UCLan. Internationally known for her work on designing and evaluating technologies for children as well as for her work on text input with digital ink, Prof. Read manages research grants and research stu- dents, teaches research methods and advanced HCI and contributes to SET activities in local schools. As a primary author of the textbook, ‘Evaluating Interactive Products with Children’, Prof. Read has worked with industries including Vision Objects, France, SAPO, Portugal and the BBC, UK in the design and evaluation of products for children. The Fun Toolkit introduced by Read is known to be used by industry.

Jerry Alan Fails is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Boise State University in Idaho, USA. He has designed technologies with and for children using PD methods for 15 years. His primary area of research is HCI, with a focus on technologies that engage children with one another, get them active, and encourage them to explore the world around them.

Eva Eriksson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She was one of the founders of Gothenburg working group for Interaction Design And Children (IDAC) in Sweden, and is now part of the Center for computational thinking and design in Denmark. Her research focus is interaction design in public knowledge institutions and designing children’s technology specialising in PD with developmentally diverse children.