Usability testing with young children

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Interaction Design and Children: Building a Community, IDC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 43-48

  Donker, Afke ^a   Reitsma, Pieter ^a  

^a PI Research Ltd   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Expertise; Observation; Think aloud; Usability testing

Indexed keywords

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

CHILDREN; EXPERTISE; OBSERVATION; THINK ALOUD; USABILITY TESTING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 77956216237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1017833.1017839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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