Continuing Games for Kids
Games for Kids
Marc Sherrington at UX for Kids (2015)
Methods mentioned
- Prototyping15:06Brings a prototype into child research sessions and stresses building rapport before diving into tasks.
- Contextual Inquiry22:30Runs contextual in-home sessions to observe parent, child, and sibling interactions around games.
- Diary Studies22:42Follows in-home participants with a diary study to capture play beyond a single session.
Related reading
Books, research, ideas and people referenced in this talk.
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Concepts
- User research with children03:49The speaker asks how to conduct research with children and says researchers need to adapt how they ask a young user what they expect.
- Peer tutoring17:48The speaker describes peer tutoring as one child explaining to another what they are doing, giving researchers a window into the child's thought process.
- Target Size (Minimum)34:15The speaker says touch hotspots should be large enough for children and warns about unintended multi-touch gestures.
Papers and articles
- Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report04:16The speaker cites Ofcom figures that 51% of UK households had tablets and 61% of three-year-olds were using tablets.
- Motherese in Interaction: At the Cross-Road of Emotion and Cognition? (A Systematic Review)26:54The speaker describes motherese as a communication technique used by adults with young children to help language development.
