{"690773":{"#nid":"690773","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Defense by Jin Yu","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Beyond Ideation: Functional Prototyping for Youth Co-Design of Future Technologies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJin Yu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. Candidate in Human-Centered Computing (HCC)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjinyu.us%2F\u0026amp;data=05%7C02%7Cfkhan47%40gatech.edu%7C7a29e258a3a64de550d908decbaf388b%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C1%7C0%7C639172150576432483%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C\u0026amp;sdata=jJdqZX8QTwrlqFebijcldcfXXaGQJdn%2BUiiAbT2rSKg%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022Original URL: http:\/\/jinyu.us\/. Click or tap if you trust this link.\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/jinyu.us\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate: \u003C\/strong\u003EThursday, June 18th, 2026\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;10\u201312 pm EST\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation: \u003C\/strong\u003ECODA Room 232\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_NDBkMjU5NDgtMWQ0ZC00ZmYxLTk0NzItZWE4ZmY0ZTdiZjA4%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22482198bb-ae7b-4b25-8b7a-6d7f32faa083%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%229c6bb181-6157-4fb8-b758-987e14cdd4fb%22%7d\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_NDBkMjU5NDgtMWQ0ZC00ZmYxLTk0NzItZWE4ZmY0ZTdiZjA4%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22482198bb-ae7b-4b25-8b7a-6d7f32faa083%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%229c6bb181-6157-4fb8-b758-987e14cdd4fb%22%7d\u0022\u003ELink\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. HyunJoo Oh (Advisor) \u2013 School of Industrial Design and School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Betsy DiSalvo \u2013 School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Thad Starner \u2013 School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Judith Uchidiuno \u2013 School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Jinsil Hwaryoung Seo \u2013 Department of Visualization, Texas A\u0026amp;M University\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Alissa Antle \u2013 School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYouth bring perspectives shaped by their everyday lives, identities, and cultural contexts. Yet youth co-design of interactive technologies often stops at the early stages of the design process. Without accessible tools to go further, young participants rarely prototype or evaluate their ideas, leaving their abstract needs and values underdeveloped and rarely articulated through concrete design decisions. This dissertation argues that ideas evolve throughout the design process, and that youth co-design carries those ideas forward when its tools and methods sustain youth agency through ideation, prototyping, and evaluation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI study this argument through three research questions, each with a tool built for it. My:Talkies, a craft kit, introduces communication-technology concepts through expressive, narrative-driven making (RQ1). Tangible-MakeCode and iReal give youth two hands-on materials: physical coding blocks that connect to the MakeCode\/micro:bit ecosystem, and foldable templates for shaping a device\u0027s form. Together, they let youth turn abstract ideas into functional prototypes within the short timeframe of a workshop. (RQ2). CoVal positions youth as evaluators of their own and their peers\u0027 prototypes, using a structured See-Think-Wonder routine, peer dialogue, and contextual grounding to surface their situated values through critique (RQ3).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcross studies with more than 150 middle-school youth and 30 educators, this dissertation makes three contributions. (1) Three accessible toolkits that help youth carry their own ideas into functional prototyping and evaluation. (2) A record of what these youth want future technologies to do, who those technologies are for, and the situated values that surface through them. 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