Participatory Design Approach with Teenagers to Social Media Design

Abstract

Teenagers' lives and experiences have been prominently influenced by social media, which encourages some values (while forbidding others) and offers a fresh way to engage with others. Nevertheless, teenagers are rarely engaged in the creation and growth of popular social media, however, because their human characteristics are not taken into account. Therefore, the primary objective of this study is to capture significant factors of human characteristics by employing teenagers to cooperatively design a new social media application. We ensure that by actively participating and involving teenagers in design activities, we can recognize their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors as the human characteristics  towards social media use. Giving participants access to design components or creative materials allows them to construct their ideal experience in a manner that clearly communicates what is important to them and why. This process is identified as participatory design. During participatory design session, the teenagers will be experiencing selected processes such as brainstorming, responding to various scenarios, and developing prototype to extract insights in the forms of factors of HCI for teenagers and design preferences. Paper prototyping technique is the most appropriate participatory design tool used as it requires no technical skills, easy and fast to develop.