A comparison of think-aloud and post-task interview for usability testing with children Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:87128, author = {Baauw, Ester and Markopoulous, Panos}, booktitle = {IDC '04: Proceeding of the 2004 conference on Interaction design and children}, citeulike-article-id = {87128}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1017848}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1017833.1017848}, comment = {We describe an experimental study of different strategies for obtaining verbalization data, when conducting a usability test with children. Two software products were evaluated by 25 children of ages 9-11, at their school, using think aloud and post-task interviews. We have found confirmatory evidence, in support of earlier tentative results, that children reported more usability problems with think aloud rather than with post-task interviews and girls reported more problems than boys. However, when we counted also the usability problems identified through observation, we found no significant difference between the two methods or between the two genders.}, doi = {10.1145/1017833.1017848}, isbn = {1581137915}, keywords = {children, interview, post-task, think-aloud, usability}, pages = {115--116}, posted-at = {2005-02-03 22:18:55}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {A comparison of think-aloud and post-task interview for usability testing with children}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1017833.1017848}, year = {2004} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:87128 L3 - citeulike-article-id:87128 SN - 1581137915 EP - 116 TI - A comparison of think-aloud and post-task interview for usability testing with children PB - ACM Press T2 - IDC '04: Proceeding of the 2004 conference on Interaction design and children SP - 115 KW - children KW - interview KW - post-task KW - think-aloud KW - usability N1 - We describe an experimental study of different strategies for obtaining verbalization data, when conducting a usability test with children. Two software products were evaluated by 25 children of ages 9-11, at their school, using think aloud and post-task interviews. We have found confirmatory evidence, in support of earlier tentative results, that children reported more usability problems with think aloud rather than with post-task interviews and girls reported more problems than boys. However, when we counted also the usability problems identified through observation, we found no significant difference between the two methods or between the two genders. AU - Baauw, Ester AU - Markopoulous, Panos PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1017833.1017848 ER -