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      Design alter egos: constructing and employing fictional characters in collaborative design sessions

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      People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology (HCI)
      Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology
      1 - 5 September 2009
      Design alter egos, fictional characters, scenarios, participatory design, collaborative design sessions, students
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            Abstract

            The paper presents a novel approach to collaborative design of educational software with students, one that asks the participants for the formation and use of fictional characters – design alter egos – as a means towards eliciting requirements and design ideas. In order to evaluate the suggested approach, we conducted 12 collaborative design sessions with the participation of 54 undergraduate university students (aged 19 to 24) for eliciting requirements for the design of an ideal course website. The analysis of the results showed that the design alter egos liberated the majority of the students from the fear of straightforwardly exposing themselves, supported and enhanced their introspection, stimulated their creativity and helped to establish an informal and constructive atmosphere throughout the design sessions. We suggest the use of design alter egos as an engaging and effective supportive technique for co-designing educational software with students.

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            Contributors
            Conference
            September 2009
            September 2009
            : 20-28
            Affiliations
            [0001]Department of Informatics

            Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

            54124, Thessaloniki, GREECE
            [0002]Department of Industrial Informatics

            T.E.I. Kavalas

            65404, Kavala, GREECE
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/HCI2009.3
            961b7543-c191-4a28-b2f3-4926d1bc1b3a
            © George Triantafyllakos et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology, Churchill College Cambridge, UK

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            People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology
            HCI
            Churchill College Cambridge, UK
            1 - 5 September 2009
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Design alter egos,fictional characters,scenarios,participatory design,collaborative design sessions,students

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