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Klappentext Evaluating Children's Interactive Products directly addresses the need to ensure that interactive products designed for children - whether toys, games, educational products, or websites - are safe, effective, and entertaining. It presents an essential background in child development and child psychology, particularly as they relate to technology; captures best practices for observing and surveying children, training evaluators, and capturing the child user experience using audio and visual technology; and examines ethical and legal issues involved in working with children and offers guidelines for effective risk management. Based on the authors' workshops, conference courses, and own design experience and research, this highly practical book reads like a handbook, while being thoroughly grounded in the latest research. Throughout, the authors illustrate techniques and principles with numerous mini case studies and highlight practical information in tips and exercises and conclude with three in-depth case studies. This book is recommended for usability experts, product developers, and researchers in the field. Zusammenfassung Interactive products designed for children are increasingly embedded in children's lives and school experiences. Making these products safe! effective! and entertaining requires new methodologies for carrying out unbiased evaluations. This book addresses this need by covering the evaluation of various types of interactive technology for children. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART 1 CHILDREN AND TECHNOLOGY 1 WHAT IS A CHILD2 CHILDREN AND INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY 3 THE INTERACTIVE PRODUCT LIFECYCLE PART 2 EVALUATING WITH AND FOR CHILDREN 4 ETHICAL PRACTICE IN EVALUATIONS 5 PLANNING THE EVALUATION STUDY 6 BEFORE THE EVALUATION 7 DURING THE EVALUATION 8 AFTER THE EVALUATION PART 3 METHODS OF EVALUATION 9 RECORDING AND LOGGING 10 OBSERVATION METHODS 11 VERBALIZATION METHODS 12 THE WIZARD OF OZ METHOD 13 SURVEY METHODS 14 DIARIES 15 INSPECTION METHODS PART 4 CASE STUDIES 16 CASE STUDY 1: GAME-CONTROLLING GESTURES ININTERACTIVE GAMES 17 CASE STUDY 2: EMBEDDING EVALUATION IN THEDESIGN OF A PERVASIVE GAME CONCEPT 18 CASE STUDY 3: USING SURVEY METHODS AND EFFICIENCY METRICS...
