Children's drawing and telling of sustainability in the home

A. Desjardins, R.L. Wakkary

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Abstract

This paper describes a pilot study about children's perspective on environmental sustainability in the home through the drawing-telling technique. We utilize the drawing-telling technique as described by Susan Wright [6] for interviewing children about issues related to sustainability. The participants (children from age 10 to 13) were asked to draw two houses (current and ideal) and then describe their drawings in terms of sustainable actions and features. This pilot study is an initial step to investigate if there are opportunities to develop eco-visualizations (EVs) with children in mind and shows that the drawing-telling technique is useful in researching sustainability and children.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI '11 Extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages1411-1416
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-0268-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event29th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: 7 May 201112 May 2011
Conference number: 29
http://www.chi2011.org/

Conference

Conference29th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011
Abbreviated titleCHI 2011
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period7/05/1112/05/11
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