Articles about Children
Playful Interfaces: Designing Interactive Experiences for Children
Learning how cognitive and physical traits of children affect their interaction with touchscreens helps designers create delightful experiences for all audiences, regardless of age and literacy [Read More]
Sesame Street, Letter Blocks, and Augmented Reality: Increasing Engagement and Learning
Lessons learned designing non-linear play experiences for a hybrid of classic letter blocks and character-driven tablet content. [Read More]
Flipping the Bit: Reintroducing Children to Technology as a Creative Medium
Technology can play many roles. It can be a partner, performer, or provider, helping children create experiences that shape their environment and their own development. [Read More]
Testing by Teaching: Peer Tutoring, a Usability Evaluation Method for Children
Peer Tutoring helps engage and encourage children during usability testing. The social context makes the test more natural, resulting in richer findings. [Read More]
Electric Racer to Promote Literacy: A Game for Two Inter-Generational Players
This study indicated that educational gameplay benefited from clarity around players’ roles, enabling parents’ participation, furthering the learning process for the child players. [Read More]
What’s News: Mommy, Can I Play with Your iPhone?
The Woogie, a stuffed animal into which you can insert your iPhone, helps childproof your phone, however parents must monitor the content their children view. [Read More]
MESS Days: Working with Children to Design and Deliver Worthwhile Mobile Experiences
Designing with children adds a new dimension to user experience design and usability testing. Our understanding in how children can best contribute is still developing. [Read More]
Designing for Children: Supporting Positive Youth Development through Social Media
Positive Technological Development aims to assist children in bettering their world through improving their technological literacy. [Read More]
Testing by Minors: Risk Prevention for UX Pros
When conducting testing with children, full disclosure and reasonable procedures are your best defense against potential legal complications. [Read More]
You Need an Outlet and a Browser: How Children Understand and Use the Internet
Children are not the most effective Web users and more research is needed to explore children’s mental models related to Internet use. [Read More]
Looking Closely at e-Learning: Vision Research Reveals Ways to Improve Children’s Experiences
Research on the effects of children’s long-term computer use is extremely limited; there remain key research questions that need to be answered. [Read More]
The Story Behind the One Laptop per Child PC: An Inteview with Yves Béhar
Yves Béhar is the designer behind the One Laptop per Child Personal Computer (OLPC). He is interviewed by User Experience guest editor Cynthia Kamishlian. [Read More]
Designing for Children with ADHD: The Search for Guidelines for Non-Experts
Expert designers sensitive to established usability guidelines should be capable of designing software that is suitable for both ADHD and non-ADHD children. [Read More]
Kidsteam: Co-designing Children’s Technologies with Children
Adults and children work together as part of Kidsteam to design new technologies for children using a low-tech prototyping experience. [Read More]
Keep It Simple. At First: Designing Game-Based Tools for Youth
Research with adolescent World of Warcraft players indicated design strategies that will help make Massive Multiplayer Online Game more accessible for individuals of all ages. [Read More]
Designing Technologies for Marginalized Children
Information and communication technologies provide great opportunities and challenges for marginalized children both in developed and developing regions. [Read More]
Editor’s Note: Combining Children, Technology, and Usability
This issue addresses our understanding and insights into how children interact with technology and how usability professionals can include children in the design process. [Read More]
Superphone to the Rescue!
Cell phones with kid finders and one button emergency calls. Music on a memory stick. [Read More]
The First Issue (Issue 1.1)
The first issue of User Experience Magazine. The lead article is on strategic usability. [Read More]
