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

@proceedings{citeulike:80382, author = {van Kesteren, Ilse E. H. v. and Bekker, Mathilde M. and Vermeeren, Arnold P. O. S. and Lloyd, Peter A.}, booktitle = {IDC '03: Proceeding of the 2003 conference on Interaction design and children}, citeulike-article-id = {80382}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=953544}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/953536.953544}, comment = {An exploratory study is described looking at children's ability to provide verbal comments in usability evaluation sessions. Six evaluation methods were applied to test an interactive toy by children aged 6 and 7. The results show that most verbal comments were gathered during Active Intervention sessions, by asking children questions during tasks. Unexpectedly, the Co-Discovery sessions were less successful, because children did not collaborate very well. Children also provided useful comments in the Thinking Aloud, Retrospection, and Peer Tutoring sessions. They could reflect on their actions at the end of Retrospection sessions, and were able to teach other children how to interact with the toy in Peer Tutoring sessions.}, doi = {10.1145/953536.953544}, isbn = {158113732X}, keywords = {assess, children, evaluation, usability}, pages = {41--49}, posted-at = {2005-02-03 22:27:37}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Assessing usability evaluation methods on their effectiveness to elicit verbal comments from children subjects}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/953536.953544}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:80382 L3 - citeulike-article-id:80382 SN - 158113732X EP - 49 TI - Assessing usability evaluation methods on their effectiveness to elicit verbal comments from children subjects PB - ACM Press T2 - IDC '03: Proceeding of the 2003 conference on Interaction design and children SP - 41 KW - assess KW - children KW - evaluation KW - usability N1 - An exploratory study is described looking at children's ability to provide verbal comments in usability evaluation sessions. Six evaluation methods were applied to test an interactive toy by children aged 6 and 7. The results show that most verbal comments were gathered during Active Intervention sessions, by asking children questions during tasks. Unexpectedly, the Co-Discovery sessions were less successful, because children did not collaborate very well. Children also provided useful comments in the Thinking Aloud, Retrospection, and Peer Tutoring sessions. They could reflect on their actions at the end of Retrospection sessions, and were able to teach other children how to interact with the toy in Peer Tutoring sessions. AU - van Kesteren, Ilse AU - Bekker, Mathilde AU - Vermeeren, Arnold AU - Lloyd, Peter PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/953536.953544 ER -