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      Empowering Teenagers to Perform a Heuristic Evaluation of a Game

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      Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014) (HCI)
      BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)
      9 - 12 September 2014
      Heuristic Evaluation, Children, Teenagers, Games, Usability
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            Unlike user studies, inspection based methods are not widely researched in the area of Child Computer Interaction. This paper reports the findings of a study to empower teenagers to facilitate a heuristic evaluation with their peers acting as the expert evaluators. In total 20 teenagers participated in the study, with four of the teenagers acting as facilitators and the remainder as evaluators. The results showed that teenagers struggled to act in the role as facilitator, struggling to explain the heuristic evaluation process and keep the evaluators on track. The evaluators found very few problems and became distracted from the evaluation opting to play on other features of the device rather than the game itself. Further research will be performed to modify the process in an attempt to eliminate these issues in order to improve the method for teenagers.

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            Conference
            September 2014
            September 2014
            : 353-358
            Affiliations
            [0001]ChiCI Group

            University of Central Lancashire

            Preston, UK
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/HCI2014.57
            f25d2a8b-6fd9-4969-a502-ace940982f14
            © Obelema Akobo Wodike et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014), Southport, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)
            HCI
            28
            Southport, UK
            9 - 12 September 2014
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Categories
            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Heuristic Evaluation,Games,Children,Usability,Teenagers

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