Assessing usability evaluation methods on their effectiveness to elicit verbal comments from children subjects

Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 41-49

  Van Kesteren, Use E H ^a   Bekker, Mathilde M ^b   Vermeeren, Arnold P O S ^a   Lloyd, Peter A ^a  

^a FACULTY OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEERING   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Empirical usability evaluation methods; Toys; Verbal comments

Indexed keywords

TEACHING;

CHILDREN; EVALUATION METHODS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; THINKING ALOUD; TOYS; USABILITY EVALUATION; USABILITY EVALUATION METHODS; VERBAL COMMENTS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 85026871071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/953536.953544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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