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In this paper, we describe the design rationale and iterative development process of a scenario-based technique for conveying the results of user analysis studies for children with dyslexia, and the first evaluation results for our scenario-based personas. Personas are well established in the user-centered design (UCD) and co-design communities, however, they are inadequately understood by practitioners not familiar with user experience (UX) design. We developed scenario-based personas for specific learning difficulties based on the main contexts of reading difficulties such as dyslexia. The method combines personas and scenarios in the artefacts for designing interactive learning products. Personas are depicted in silhouettes of children, educators or caregivers, which are overlaid in scenario contexts of learning and leisure. Scenarios were designed to describe the stories and context behind why learners and educators would consider using tangible blocks for developing phonological skills in literacy education. Methodological considerations for using scenario-based personas in user research will be discussed.
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Authors would like to thank all participants in the user studies, as well as the Humanistic Co-Design Initiative at MIT and the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Lab for supporting this work. We also thank the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP) and the Saudi Health Council’s National Lab for Emerging Health Technologies for supporting the local CoCreate program in Saudi Arabia. This work is part of the authors’ project that is carried out under the CoCreate Fellowship for Humanistic Co-Design of Access Technologies. Our thanks go to Dr. Shiroq Almegren and Dr. Areej Al-Wabil for their insightful comments and valuable suggestions on the drafts of this paper.
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AlSabban, M., Alorij, S., Alshamrani, G., Alharbi, O. (2020). Humanistic Co-design for Specific Learning Difficulties Using Scenario-Based Personas: Tangible Arabic Alphabet Blocks for Dyslexia. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Gao, Q., Zhou, J. (eds) HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Papers: Universal Access and Inclusive Design. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12426. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60149-2_3
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