The Story of Designing an Educational Mobile Application for Children in South of Jordan

Most of the current educational mobile apps for children are developed from the perspectives of developed countries. Due to this, many times parents from the developing/underdeveloped countries do not consider these apps fit to their socio-cultural norms. Targeting this concern, we involved the kids, their parents, and their teachers from South of Jordan region in the requirements gathering and the design phases of an educational mobile app. This mobile app would educate and entertain kids through stories while keeping the social-cultural norms of the region. In this work, we present the requirements gathering and the design phase. Further, we provide details of a design evaluation study that we conducted with ten kids at a public school from South of Jordan region to get their feedbacks on our created design and the stories.

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Ragaad AlTarawneh

Manal AlKhoshrman

Yousef Nabeel

Shah Rukh Humayoun

Ahmad Hassanat

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 1-4

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[ ¹ ]Information Technology Department

Mutah University, Al Karak, Jordan

[ ² ]Computer Graphics and HCI Group

University of Kaiserslautern, 67663 – Kaiserslautern, Germany

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.10

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 31

Conference location: Sunderland, UK

Conference date: 3 - 6 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: digital make-believe, with delegates considering our expansive

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[1] R. O. Bahatheg 2015 IPads Enhance Social Interaction Skills among Hearing-Impaired Children of Low Income Families in Saudi Arabia International Education Studies 8 12 167 175

[2] J. BerggrenC. Hedler 2014 CamQuest: Design and Evaluation of a Tablet Application for Educational Use in Preschools In Proc. of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children (IDC ’14) ACM New York, NY, USA

[3] E. BonsignoreA. DruinS. Franckel 2010 Designing for Children’s Mobile Storytelling International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interactio 2 2 April 2010 19 36

[4] L. CrescenziC. JewittS. Price 2014 The Role of Touch in Preschool Children’s Learning Using iPad versus Paper Interaction The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy 37

[5] L. C. LannaM. G. Oró 2016 An Analysis of the Interaction Design of the Best Educational Apps for Children Aged Zero to Eight,Comunicar 46 77 85

[6] J. Donner 2008 Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature The Information Society 24 3 May 2008 140 159

[7] J. P. Hourcade 2015 Child-Computer Interaction CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; First Edition June 17 2015

[8] Z. JianS. LijuanW. LirongL. JunD. QinshengS.V. Shalobanov 2015 The Research of Human-Computer Interaction Model Based on the Morhpable Model Based 3D Face Synthesis in the Speech Rehabilitation for Deaf Children Proceedings of the IEEE Fifth International Conference Big Data and Cloud Computing 2015 BDCloud 2015 191 194

[9] L-C. LeeW-J. Wei 2013 Child-computer Interaction Design and Its Effectiveness Research & Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning 8 1 5 19

[10] R. N. McEwenA. K. Dubé 2015 Engaging or Distracting: Children’s Tablet Computer Use in Education Journal of Educational Technology & Society 18 4 9 23

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