Designing with Kids: How Children and Adults Can Co-create New Technology

As part of their Sandbox initiative, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop has partnered with The GIANT Room to bring together diverse groups of youth with researchers and industry innovators to put learning, wellbeing, and DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) at the center of product development for children. We started this partnership with a focus on a new AI-powered learning platform called OKO.

Read this blog post by Dr. Medha Tare from Joan Ganz Cooney Center to learn more about the series of play testing, prototyping, and co-designing workshops we planned and implemented as part of this study.

Is your company designing and developing a product for kids? Reach out to us to learn more on ways The GIANT Room’s team and GIANT kids can support you in your research and development efforts. From recruitment and space for conducting research, to designing a robust research program based on the stage of your product development— including facilitation, data collection and analysis, reports, executive summaries, and experience/play design consulting; we’re here to support.