Requirements for the design of a handwriting recognition based writing interface for children

  • Authors:
  • Janet C Read;Stuart MacFarlane;Peggy Gregory

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Central Lancashire, Preston;University of Central Lancashire, Preston;University of Central Lancashire, Preston

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Interaction design and children: building a community
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper describes how the design of a novel writing interface for children was informed by requirements gathering. The derivation of a set of system requirements from observations of children using early prototypes of the interface and from modelling the system is described, and then two methods of gathering further requirements by surveying children are outlined. The relative advantages and disadvantages of each method are discussed. The children were not able to contribute to the full range of requirements necessary for a complete system, but they contributed fun requirements that the observational work failed to identify. A model of the child's relationship to interactive systems is used to discuss why this is the case.