Participatory Design for Creating Virtual Environments

ICT are changing the way we conduct and experience family life. An increasing number of families depend on messaging and VoIP services for their daily communication needs. This work presents the case of participatory design with a senior citizen and her two grandchildren to explore the possibilities of using 360 video enabled intergenerational story telling. This work presents the method of participatory engagement with the family and the iterations of the designs over seven sessions. Based on the learning learnt during the process, the focus of this work is on the role of engaging in ground up participatory design in the design of advanced digital technologies for hitherto underserved population.