Gender and Cultural Differences (If Any!): South African School Children and Computer Games

Wet, Lizette De; McDonald, Theo

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-75538-8_24

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“…However there is little or no research on cultural differences when using these evaluation methods with children or on specific child focussed methods. It has been suggested that cultural differences affect how people play and interact through social networking games (Lee and Wohn, 2012) yet cultural differences in games has not been as widely researched as gender differences (De Wet and McDonald, 2006). This paper reports on a comparative analysis of children's preference between two computer games and analyses the evaluation method.…”

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Evaluating Game Preference using the Fun Toolkit across Cultures

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Horton

Danino

2012

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Over the past decade many new evaluation methods have emerged for evaluating user experience with children, but the results of these studies have tended to be reported in isolation and cultural implications have been largely ignored. This paper reports on a comparative analysis of the Fun Toolkit and the effect of culture on game preference. In total 37 children aged between 7 and 9 participated in the study, from a school in the UK and Jordan. The children played 2 different games on a tablet PC and their experiences of each were captured using the Fun Toolkit. The results showed that culture did not appear to affect children's preference and Fun Toolkit is a valid user experience tool across cultures.

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confidence: 99%