Interaction Design Principles in WYRED Platform

et al. 2019

Univ Access Inf Soc

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The WYRED ecosystem is a technological ecosystem developed as part of WYRED (netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society), a European Project funded by the Horizon 2020 program. The main aim of the project is to provide a framework for research in which children and young people can express and explore their perspectives and interests concerning digital society. The WYRED ecosystem supports this framework from a technological point of view. The WYRED Platform is one of the main software components of this complex technological solution; it is focused on supporting the social dialogues that take place between children, young people and stakeholders. The ecosystem, and in particular the Platform, are already developed, but it is vital to ensure the acceptance by the final users, the children and young people mainly. This work presents the usability test carried out to evolve the Platform through the System Usability Scale. This usability test allows the identification of the weaknesses of the Platform regarding its characteristics, also allowing the corresponding improvement of the WYRED Platform, and it will serve as a reference for further usability testing.

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confidence: 99%

Analyzing the usability of the WYRED Platform with undergraduate students to improve its features

García-Peñalvo

Vázquez-Ingelmo

et al. 2019

Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…In this context, WYRED project (https://wyredproject.eu) aims to provide a framework for research in which children and young people can express and explore their perspectives and interests concerning digital society, but also a Platform from which they can communicate their perspectives to other stakeholders effectively through innovative engagement processes [5]. WYRED [6] is a European project funded by Horizon2020 programme for three years, from November 2016 to October 2019, in which are involved institutions from Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Turkey, Ireland, Belgium, Austria, and Israel.…”

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confidence: 99%

Study of the Usability of the WYRED Ecosystem Using Heuristic Evaluation

García-Peñalvo

Vázquez-Ingelmo

Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing Learning Experiences

2019

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The WYRED ecosystem is a composition of Open Source tools and the people involved in the project, i.e., partners, stakeholders and young people between the ages of 7 and 30 years. The main component of this ecosystem is the WYRED Platform. The WYRED Platform relies on communities, which are a set of interaction spaces where conversations and research projects are developed. Every community has a person or persons in charge of its management, which are the so-called facilitators, and also a set of members, mainly young people, interacting through discussion threads. The high levels of interaction required to accomplish the WYRED Platform's goals lead to the necessity of ensuring that the system is accepted by its final users. Given this need, a preliminary study was performed to analyze the usability of the Platform from the point of view of young people. However, it is also crucial that the ecosystem meets usability criteria for the facilitators, due to their role of encouraging young people to participate and serving as a guide in the conversations taking place within communities, as well as in the research projects developed by the young people about different topics related to the digital society. Therefore, a usability study targeting facilitators was carried out to reach insights about how these users value the system's usability. This usability study was performed through a combination of two techniques, a heuristic analysis by experts and the Computer System Usability Questionnaire to collect the experience of the real users.

“…!e networking process included the creation of the WYRED Manifesto, the design of the project logo and slogan, the creation of a promotional video (h#ps://youtu.be/5DE07H_vDe8), the initial stakeholders contact and then the implementation of a Delphi study. !ese phases were the basis of the WYRED project and their outcomes were and are used as the main force and material that supports other processes such as the definition and development of a technological ecosystem to support the research framework [5][6][7].…”

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Delphi study to identify the young people priorities about digital society

Rodríguez-Conde

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality

Zangrando

et al. 2018

!is paper aims to present an advance of the results of the application of the Delphi technique, with the aim of gathering the opinion of experts or stakeholders on the topics of priority interest of young people in Europe, especially on the digital society. It is a work framed within the Horizon 2020 WYRED Project (netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital Society). !e WYRED project, and in this specific case the Networking process, aims in bringing together children, young people, other stakeholders and policymakers around Europe. !e Delphi technique is one of the prospective methods that study the future, concerning the evolution of the factors of the technosocio-economic environment and the interactions between these factors. !e characteristics that define this technique are anonymity, iteration and controlled feedback, and presentation of group data in the statistical form. !e progress of the presented results allows us to corroborate the agreement of experts about the topics that have been raised. According to experts, the concern of youth towards issues related to the digital society does not appear among the first concerns of young people neither in Spain nor the rest of the countries surveyed.