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Eliciting parents' individual requirements for an inclusive digital school system

Eftring, Håkan LU ; Rassmus-Gröhn, Kirsten LU orcid and Hedvall, Per Olof LU orcid (2016) 3rd International Conference on Universal Design, UD 2016 In Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 229. p.211-221
Abstract

Parents often have a busy time sorting out their life puzzles, including getting information about their children's activities in school. More and more communication between teachers and parents take place via digital school systems. It can be hard for parents to find the information they are looking for and the teacher decides when information is sent and what communication method to use. All parents, but especially parents with disabilities, might have individual preferences on how to receive information and how to adapt meetings at school. In this paper we present a project where we involved parents and teachers in focus groups, an idea workshop and iterative user trials of a digital prototype. The goal was to elicit parents'... (More)

Parents often have a busy time sorting out their life puzzles, including getting information about their children's activities in school. More and more communication between teachers and parents take place via digital school systems. It can be hard for parents to find the information they are looking for and the teacher decides when information is sent and what communication method to use. All parents, but especially parents with disabilities, might have individual preferences on how to receive information and how to adapt meetings at school. In this paper we present a project where we involved parents and teachers in focus groups, an idea workshop and iterative user trials of a digital prototype. The goal was to elicit parents' individual requirements for an inclusive digital school system, where they can store their individual preferences about how and when to receive information from school and what requirements they have on meetings at school. Preliminary results show that we managed to create open and focused discussions among parents and teachers. The parents reacted very positively on an onboarding page with the possibility to quickly and easily enter preferences after their first log in, but more work needs to be done on how preferences are categorized on the onboarding page. Finally, parents need to get clear feedback from teachers and school when they have entered or updated preferences, so they can trust that their preferences will be met.

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keywords
Education, Storing individual preferences, Teacher-parent communication methods, Universal design, User involvement, User requirements
host publication
Universal Design 2016: Learning from the Past, Designing for the Future - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Universal Design, UD 2016
series title
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
volume
229
pages
11 pages
publisher
IOS Press
conference name
3rd International Conference on Universal Design, UD 2016
conference location
York, United Kingdom
conference dates
2016-08-21 - 2016-08-24
external identifiers
  • wos:000390308100030
  • scopus:84988484396
ISSN
18798365
09269630
ISBN
9781614996835
DOI
10.3233/978-1-61499-684-2-211
project
The School Contact - Combined IT support for guardians' contacts with the primary school
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English
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  author       = {{Eftring, Håkan and Rassmus-Gröhn, Kirsten and Hedvall, Per Olof}},
  booktitle    = {{Universal Design 2016: Learning from the Past, Designing for the Future - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Universal Design, UD 2016}},
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  keywords     = {{Education; Storing individual preferences; Teacher-parent communication methods; Universal design; User involvement; User requirements}},
  language     = {{eng}},
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  title        = {{Eliciting parents' individual requirements for an inclusive digital school system}},
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