Assessing usability and fun in educational software

Proceedings of: Interaction Design and Children 2005, IDC 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 103-109

  MacFarlane, Stuart ^a   Sim, Gavin ^a   Horton, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Computer assisted learning; Educational software; Evaluation; Fun; Usability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; EVALUATION METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OBSERVED DATA; YOUNG CHILDREN;

EDUCATION; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 43149125511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1109540.1109554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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