Comparison of think-aloud and constructive interaction in usability testing with children

Proceedings of: Interaction Design and Children 2005, IDC 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 9-16

  Als, Benedikte S ^a   Jensen, Janne J ^a   Skov, Mikael B ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Children; Constructive interaction; Subjective workload; Think aloud; Usability testing and evaluation

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION METHOD; SUBJECTIVE WORKLOAD; USABILITY PROBLEMS; USABILITY TESTING; USABILITY TESTING AND EVALUATION;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

EID: 41149126089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1109540.1109542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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