Computer users have tasks they need to perform, and are therefore motivated to overcome poorly designed interfaces. With video games, there is no external motivation for the task ...
Informal educational experiences with grandparents and other older adults can be an important component of childrens education, especially in circumstances where high quality educ...
Allison Druin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Alexander J. ...
Information visualizations can improve collaborative problem solving, but this improvement may depend on whether visualizations promote communication. In an experiment on the effe...
Aruna D. Balakrishnan, Susan R. Fussell, Sara B. K...
Usability evaluation methods have a long history of research. Latest contributions significantly raised the validity of method evaluation studies. But there is still a measurement...
During conversations, speakers establish their and others’ participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman...