AfriCHI Conference 2023 Workshop  

The goal of this workshop is to convene researchers and stakeholders involved in co-creating technologies with children to share their experiences, best tools and methodologies as well as how to effectively manage any challenges they have encountered. Participants may contribute their unique perspectives and ideas to the research process in an effort to share experiences of facilitating co-designing with children, identify challenges, and collaborate on improving strategies, tools, and methodologies to encourage co-design with children globally. This workshop looks into co-designing with children, exploring the hurdles faced by researchers and strategies to overcome them. Participants will discuss, fostering empathy, meaningful participation, and innovative tools to create inclusive outcomes. The sessions aim to promote creative, child-centric solutions by exchanging experiences and success stories. Co-designing with children can be fun and generate insightful design ideas but however, challenges may be encountered during the collaborative design sessions. The workshop will enable researchers and practitioners to discuss some of the challenges they have encountered and elaborate on strategies to mitigate the challenges in an effort to design effective technologies for children. In this workshop, we will work face to face and utilise Jamboard. Participants will share challenging experiences, and develop strategic solutions in teams. Finally, we intend to establish collaboration links between researchers and practitioners to exchange techniques, and resources and engage in new initiatives globally.