A comparison of usability evaluation methods for child participants in a school setting

Proceedings of the 6th international Conference on Interaction Design And Children, IDC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 9-16

  Edwards, Helen ^a   Benedyk, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active intervention; Child participants; Cross age tutoring; Peer tutoring; School setting; Usability evaluation

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ACTIVE INTERVENTION; CHILD PARTICIPANTS; CROSS-AGE TUTORING; PEER TUTORING; SCHOOL SETTING; USABILITY EVALUATION;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 41149094109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1297277.1297280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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