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Great expectations: what do children expect from their technology?

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Leigh Ellen Potter,

Sue NielsenAuthors Info & Claims

SIGSIM-CPR '14: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM conference on Computers and people research

Pages 105 - 111

https://doi.org/10.1145/2599990.2600008

Published: 29 May 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Children of the digital generation have expectations of technology that may or may not reflect the expectations of the adults around them. This paper explores the expectations of and attitudes towards technology of a group of young Deaf children while interacting with a computer game application. We found that the children expect seamless, intuitive behaviour from technology in part based on their existing experience with game platforms, mobile technology, and other computer games. In addition to high expectations of the technology, the children were highly adaptive to unfamiliar interfaces, tolerant of prototype deficiencies once they were familiar with the prototyping approach and could readily interact with new game elements. The challenge for developers is to create applications that harness the creativity of the digital generation and meet their high expectations. We suggest that involvement of children within the development approach will assist in meeting these goals.

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Korte JPotter LNielsen S(2017)How design involvement impacts Deaf children2017 International Conference on Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS)10.1109/ICRIIS.2017.8002527(1-6)Online publication date: Jul-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRIIS.2017.8002527

Index Terms

Great expectations: what do children expect from their technology?
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping
      2. User centered design

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Korte JPotter LNielsen SBrereton M(2017)The impacts of deaf culture on designing with deaf childrenProceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/3152771.3152786(135-142)Online publication date: 28-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3152771.3152786
Korte JPotter LNielsen S(2017)How design involvement impacts Deaf children2017 International Conference on Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS)10.1109/ICRIIS.2017.8002527(1-6)Online publication date: Jul-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRIIS.2017.8002527

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