[ACM Press the 8th International Conference - Como, Italy (2009.06.03-2009.06.05)] Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children - IDC '09 - Experience it, draw it, rate it

✍ Scribed by Xu, Diana; Read, Janet C.; Sim, Gavin; McManus, Barbara

• Book ID: 125487132
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2009
• Weight: 249 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1605583952
• DOI: 10.1145/1551788.1551849

✦ Synopsis

This paper investigates the use of drawings as a tool for the evaluation of children's interfaces. In the study, children's experiences on a variety of computer interfaces were captured in drawings. A group of four researchers participated in the coding of the drawings, before the results were aggregated and statistically analysed.

The evaluation of the approach is positive: the chosen drawing method could be used easily and was effective in conveying the user experience from the drawings; a number of the drawings conveyed information pertaining to user experiences: fun (F), goal fit (GF) and tangible magic (TM); the method was found generally reliable at capturing all three elements and particularly reliable at capturing fun.