Qualitative Data Analysis Challenges in Co-Designing Educational Technology Systems for Refugee Children

There is a growing interest in the potential for technology to facilitate emergency education of refugee children. But designing in this space requires knowledge of the displaced population and the contextual dynamics surrounding it. Design should therefore be informed by both existing research across relevant disciplines, and from those who are on the ground facing the problem in real life. This paper describes a process that is based on literature from emergency education, student engagement and motivation, educational technology, and participatory design. We describe how this process was implemented leading to the design of a digital learning space for children living in a refugee camp in Greece. The challenge of data analysis is critical, as the qualitative data in the process is elicited from activities of various natures and thus moving from qualitative data to designs is a critical challenge that we are looking to cover for our process to be complete and applicable. We discuss some of the challenges that can be expected in such context.

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George Alain

Tim Coughlan

Anne Adams

Helen Yanacopulos

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Publication date: July 2018

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[0001]Institute of Educational Technology The Open University Milton Keynes, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.217

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

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Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

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Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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[1] G. Alain 2018 „A Process for Co-Designing Educational Technology Systems for Refugee Children‟ in British HCI 2018 Belfast

[2] A. Crabtree 1998 „Ethnography in Participatory Design‟ in Proceedings of the 1998 Participatory Design conference 93 105 Available at: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszaxc/work/PDC98.pdf (Accessed: 17 June 2018

[3] P. Dourish 2006 „Implications for design‟ Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings 1 541 550 10.1145/1124772.1124855

[4] A. Druin 2002 „The role of children in the design of new technology‟ Behaviour & Information Technology 21 1 1 25 10.1080/01449290110108659

[5] K. E. FisherK. YefimovaE. Yafi 2016 „“ Future ‟ s Butterflies?:” Co-Designing ICT Wayfaring Technology with Refugee Syrian Youth‟ ACM SIGCHI Conference on Interaction Design and Children 2016 25 36 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2930674.2930701

[6] C. L. B. Kadiyala Madhavi 2000 „A Review of Literature on Effectiveness of Use of Information Technology in Education‟ Journal of Engineering Education 89 April 177 189

[7] F. Kagawa 2005 „Emergency education: a critical review of the field‟, Comparative Education 41 4 487 503 10.1080/03050060500317620

[8] M. J. Muller 2003 „Participatory design: The third space in HCI‟, Human-Computer Interaction Handbook 4235 1051 1068 10.1145/153571.255960

[9] M. J. Pigozzi 1999 „Education in emergencies and for reconstruction: a developmental approach‟ UNICEF working paper series 21 Available at: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/LGEL-5G8FMF/$file/unicef-education-1999.pdf CN - PIG 74 (Accessed: 30 April 2017

[10] M. ScaifeY. Rogers 1999 „Kids as informants: telling us what we didn‟t know or confirming what we knew already?‟ in The Design of Children’s Technology Morgan Kaufmann 1 26 10.1145/258549.258789

[11] M. Sinclair 2002 Planning education in and after emergencies, International Journal of Educational Development 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2003.08.003

[12] E. SkinnerJ. Pitzer 2012 „Developmental Dynamics of Student Engagement, Coping, and Everyday Resilience‟ in Handbook of Research on Student Engagement 515 539 10.1007/978-1-4614-2018-7

[13] C. TalbotK. Muigai 1998 „Environmental education for refugees: guidelines, implementation and lessons learned.‟ Education as a Humanitarian Response 223 247

[14] UNHCR 2016a GLOBAL TRENDS: FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN 2016 Available at: http://www.unhcr.org/5943e8a34.pdf (Accessed: 14 May 2018

[15] UNHCR 2016b „Missing out: Refugee education in crisis‟ 48

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