Co-create and Co-develop With Children. The BODYSOUND Engagement Model

Abstract

The article explores the use of participatory design processes, methods, and tools to develop interactive healthcare and wellbeing solutions involving children with motor disabilities and their caregiving system. This contribution provides a theoretical framework focused on the engagement roles that children participating in co-design processes can play, providing the description of BODYSOUND, a pilot project developed within the SISCODE H2020 European project. We will present the co-design process divided into two main phases: co-creation and co-development. For each of these phases, we carried out iterative design actions that will be presented according to the role with which children are engaged, the targets involved, and methods to collect data. All of these were subjected to the primary goal of each design action. The final part systematizes the results of the analysis and identifies different goals and methods for children’s participation according to specific design phases.