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Title: Children as Design Partners for Educational Web Sites:


1
Children as Design Partners for Educational Web
Sites
  • Challenges and Lessons from the NIDA for Teens
    Project

2
Introductions
  • Nancy Kaplan, Ph.D.
  • Professor and Director, School of Information
    Arts and Technologies, University of Baltimore
  • Jennifer Isenberg, M.S.
  • Project Manager, IQ Solutions, Inc.
  • Richard Panzer, M.S.
  • Technical Lead, Web Interface Group, IQ
    Solutions, Inc.

3
Overview
  • The team
  • Target Audience
  • Teen Requirements
  • Homepage Design
  • Design of Dr. NIDA
  • Naming conventions, Navigation, Content
    development

4
The Team
  • National Institute of Health (NIDA)
  • IQ Solutions
  • University of Baltimore Kids Team
  • Scholastic
  • Advisory Board

5
Target Audience
  • Initial target audience was 9-13 year olds
  • Found that there was too much difference in
    maturity level between 9/10 year olds and 12/13
    year olds
  • Changed the target audience to 11-15 year olds
  • Needs of Boys and Girls

6
Teens Requirements
  • Likes and dislikes of the Internet
  • What teens enjoy doing online
  • What they know about NIDA or NIH
  • What type of schoolwork they regarding learning
    about drugs and drug abuse
  • What they would want out of a site that pertained
    to drug abuse education

7
Homepage Design
  • Gathered Web site requirements from Teens
  • Produced 3 potential homepages and presented them
    to the teens
  • Refined the designs based on feedback to 2
    homepage designs
  • Photos vs. Illustrations
  • Naming the site Headzzup, Headsup, Heads Up,
    NIDA for Teens
  • Finalized homepage design was used to create the
    primary, secondary and tertiary level Web pages

8
Sample Homepage Design
9
Sample Homepage Design
10
Sample Homepage Design
11
Design of Dr. NIDA
  • Who is Dr. NIDA?
  • Illustration of fictitious object
  • Photo of Real Person
  • Male or Female

12
Types of Content, Imagery and Navigation
  • Teens content needs
  • Parents/Teachers content needs
  • Imagery
  • Navigation and Naming conventions
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