Call for Participation

Call for Adults

We invite researchers and practitioners, with experience and/or interest in (distributed online) co-design with children, to join our 7 hours hybrid workshop at NordiCHI 2022, in person or virtually. We will work in an on-line design space which was created by 62 children from Namibia, Malaysia and Finland. To create enabling online design contexts and techniques for children, workshop participants will share challenges, experienced or anticipated, in co-designing with children online and work in teams on strategic solutions; participants will also have the chance to co-facilitate an online design session with children from across the globe, followed by a structured reflection and future research prospects discussion. We hope to create new connections between researchers and practitioners to continue sharing and start new collaborations. Our website will be maintained for pre- and post-workshop communication. If you are interested, please fill the application form for participation.


18 participants will be selected on a first-come first-serve basis after acceptance of their individual position paper, which should contain the following information:


a)Experienced or anticipated challenges in co-designing with children on-line.

b)Strategies, tools, theories and models the authors have used successfully in on-line design with children or alternatively a motivation for attending the workshop.

c)Author’s latest co-design contexts including participants and object of design.

Call for Children

Are you interested in joining a 1 hour workshop to design a robot or virtual teacher with other children from around the world? If so, this workshop is for you. Children between the ages 10-13 and comfortable in speaking English, are invited to join virtually the design workshop at NordiCHI 2022, on the 8th of October 2022. In this online workshop, you will be working in a team jointly designing the virtual or robot teacher of your dreams. You will work in an online design space that was created with 62 children from Namibia, Malaysia, and Finland. In order to join the on-line space you need to create a free ohyay account, have access to a stable internet connection, enable your camera and microphone, and obtain parental consent. Only 18 children will be selected on a first come first serve principle. If you are interested please fill in the application form on our website.