Guidelines for usability testing with children
interactions
Human-computer interaction for kids
The human-computer interaction handbook
Building KidPad: an application for children's collaborative storytelling
Software—Practice & Experience
Comparison of think-aloud and constructive interaction in usability testing with children
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Interaction design and children
KidCode: using email to structure interactions for elementary mathematics instruction
CSCL '97 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer support for collaborative learning
Designing spoken instructions with preschool children
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Interaction design and children
Touch-screen technology for children: giving the right instructions and getting the right responses
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
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When children use a computer, they often need instructions for how to proceed. However, giving instructions in the user interface is challenging: young children do not know how to read, or the instructions might be in a language they do not master. We describe three small scale usability studies where the amount and method of advice giving in the interface varied. Our results show that children manage to use properly designed software with no instructions at all. Some usability test protocols emphasize giving children spoken instructions to help them get started. In our case studies we report two kinds of adult presence in the group for providing the spoken instructions, and the mixed findings of the role of the adult.