The Schedule

Introduction and Framing

• Welcome and participant introductions with disciplinary background and interest in participation, 

• Short framing inputs from organizers, introducing perspectives on participation from HCI (interaction and systems) and OT (everyday life, meaning, and context)

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• Interactive mapping exercise where participants articulate their understanding of participation. 

 Perspectives and Case Exploration

• Short provocations presenting cases or challenges related to children’s participation

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• Interdisciplinary group work (4-5 participants) analyzing real-world scenarios (e.g., school, home, play)

• Identification of child roles (e.g., student, friend, player) and how participation is enabled or constrained. 

Mapping Participation 

• Mapping relationships between child, roles, activities, environments, and technologies

• Peer feedback and cross-group discussion

Co-Design and Concept Development

Groups select key challenges and develop concepts using guided co-design (scenarios, sketches, low-fidelity prototypes), focusing on enabling meaningful participation and contextual integration while designing for enabling participation in specific roles and everyday situations

Design Strategies and Patterns

• Reflection on concepts to extract generalizable design strategies and patterns across the fields

• Collective clustering and refinement across groups

Roadmapping and Wrap-up

• Identification of research gaps, opportunities, and interdisciplinary challenges

• Development of a shared research and design roadmap and discussion of collaboration/publication plans

• Reflections, and next steps