Usability testing with young children

Donker, Afke; Reitsma, P. H.

doi:10.1145/1017833.1017839

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“…O teste com o público semelhante recorreu ao método Cognitive Walk-Through (Wharton, Bradford, Jeffries, & Franzke, 1992), com o utilizador percorrendo o protótipo e realizando uma aprendizagem exploratória. Simultaneamente, foi usado a técnica Talk Aloud (Donker & Reitsma, 2004), durante o qual o utilizador dialoga com quem conduz o teste. No final, estes sujeitos preencheram um questionário de satisfação SUS -System Usability Scale (Brooke, 1986).…”

Section: Método E Técnicas De Recolha De Dadosunclassified

Usabilidade em plataforma web: de mero repositório a ambiente colaborativo de aprendizagem

Santos

Lencastre

2017

R Est Inv Psico y Educ

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ResumoEste artigo descreve um estudo de avaliação da usabilidade no desenvolvimento uma proposta de estruturação das secções de uma plataforma web centrada no aluno, com vista à sua utilização no suporte a trabalho de projeto e práticas colaborativas com alunos do ensino secundário. Os dados foram recolhidos usando os métodos de avaliação heurística, observação e inquérito, e em três testes diferentes: um teste-piloto, um teste heurístico e uma avaliação com utilizadores semelhantes ao público-alvo. Os resultados obtidos nos testes permitiram validar a proposta e a identificação de melhorias que são descritas. Palavras-chave: blended learning, usabilidade, instructional design, avaliação heurística, Moodle Abstract This article describes a usability study regarding a proposal's development for sections structuring within a student-centred web platform. This platform is intended to be used with K12 students, supporting Project Work Methodology and collaborative practices. Data were collected using heuristic assessment, observation and survey methods, and in three different tests: a pilot test, a heuristic test and an assessment with similar users. The results obtained, and described, identify some improvements and allowed the proposal's validation.

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Usabilidade em plataforma web: de mero repositório a ambiente colaborativo de aprendizagem

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“…However when conducting usability research with children there are a number of challenges that need to be considered. In one study [39] out of 70 children only 28 of them made verbal remarks during the user test. This may well be attributed to their personality, a study showed that personality characteristics influences the number of identified problems [40], therefore further research is still required to understand usability methods and their limitations and to ascertain which are applicable to children.…”

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“…However, many traditional adult evaluation methods are ineffective when used with children [39] and so adaptations to evaluation methods are necessary. The behavior of the evaluator may affect the children's performance, as might other factors, including the decoration of the room and the observational equipment being deployed [13].…”

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Understanding the fidelity effect when evaluating games with children

Sim

Cassidy

Read

2013

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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There have been a number of studies that have compared evaluation results from prototypes of different fidelities but very few of these are with children. This paper reports a comparative study of three prototypes ranging from low fidelity to high fidelity within the context of mobile games, using a between subject design with 37 participants aged 7 to 9. The children played a matching game on either an iPad, a paper prototype using screen shots of the actual game or a sketched version. Observational data was captured to establish the usability problems, and two tools from the Fun Toolkit were used to measure user experience. The results showed that there was little difference for user experience between the three prototypes and very few usability problems were unique to a specific prototype. The contribution of this paper is that children using low-fidelity prototypes can effectively evaluate games of this genre and style.

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“…Children have acted as design partners [10], participated in usability studies [7,19] and workshops [12,16,23] and have provided feedback on the use of design probes [21,26]. Participation in such activities is an opportunity for researchers who get to collect direct qualitative feedback from their target user group [11] and for children to learn, be creative, and inform the design of future educational products that are both effective and fun to use.…”

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Children's Creativity Lab

Mann

Hinrichs

Quigley

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Workshops on Advances in Computer Entertainment Conference

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Technology is changing the way we acquire new skills and proficiencies and handwriting is no exception to this. However, while some technological advancements exist in this area, the question of how we can digitally enhance the process of learning handwriting remains under-explored. Being immersed in this process on an everyday basis, we believe that school aged children can provide valuable ideas and insights into the design of future writing tools for learners developing their (hand)writing skills. As end-users of the proposed technology, we explore including children in a form of informed participatory design during a creativity lab where we invited 12 children, aged 11-12, to put themselves into the shoes of a product designers and create a Pen of the Future using prototyping materials. In this paper we describe our methodology and discuss the design ideas that children came up with and how these may inform the design of future writing tools.

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Usability testing with young children

Cited by 38 publications

References 9 publications

Usabilidade em plataforma web: de mero repositório a ambiente colaborativo de aprendizagem

Usabilidade em plataforma web: de mero repositório a ambiente colaborativo de aprendizagem

Understanding the fidelity effect when evaluating games with children

Children's Creativity Lab

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