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| Usability Interface |
January 2002 - Usability Testing with Children
Usability, Jr. - How to Run a
Successful Usability Test with Children
by Silica Larkin
What works for adults will not necessarily work for children, so HCI research must develop usability guidelines that are appropriate for children. (Kori Inkpen 1996) The above statement seems obvious, but how many of us have put it into practice? More...
What Children Want
By David Dick, Editor
What do you think is the most important aspect when it comes to designing and testing software for children? Children of course! More...
Testing Educational
Software with Children
By Yves Rannou
In May 2001, I conducted a study of Knowledge Forum, an educational software package for young users. Part of the study was a series of usability tests to reveal user interface issues, assess their impact on the quality of users’ interaction, and identify what was causing user failures while interacting with some of the features. More...
Web Survey Considerations
By David Kimmel
If you’ve spent much time surfing the Web recently, you may have noticed that Web surveys are on the rise. By nature, all surveys, whether they are in print or online, have two competing objectives. More...
Technology Review
Using my PDA as a Project Management Tool
By Karla Caldwell
When I bought my Handspring™ Visor Deluxe, my brother made fun of me. He called it my “$250 pencil and paper” and never missed an opportunity to mock my new tech toy. For a while, I almost believed him; had I wasted my money on my personal digital assistant (PDA)? More...
Should a GO Button be Included with
a Drop-down List?
By Vannesa Mosher and Steven Weintraub
Results from a survey of the usability community, about two approaches to implementing a drop-down list box to allow the user to select a navigation option. More...
Book Review
Usability Engineering: Scenario-Based Development of
Human-Computer Interaction
By Mary Beth Rosson and John M. Carroll
Pulse of the Usability SIG
by Whitney Quesenbery
It was hard to decide just what the pulse of the SIG is right now. In some areas and some industries, the news is all gloomy, with wave after wave of layoffs. Conferences are braced for reduced attendance, and business cards are passed around at networking events. Signs of the dislocation crop up in odd places, like the high number of returned copies of the October newsletter. On the other hand, some people seem to be not only surviving, but thriving. More...
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