Exploratory Study of Young Children's Social Media Needs and Requirements
This addresses the needs of young children and social media designers, but it is incremental as it is an exploratory first step without broad impact.
The study tackled the problem of understanding young children's social media needs by conducting an exploratory design workshop with children aged 10-11, resulting in the identification of the most desired social media features for this population.
As social media are becoming increasingly popular among young children, it is important to explore this population's needs and requirements from these platforms. As a first step to this, we conducted an exploratory design workshop with children aged between ten and eleven years to find out about their social media needs and requirements. Through an analysis of the paper prototypes solicited from the workshop, here we discuss the social media features that are the most desired by this population.