Evaluating Interactive Technology with Children

While evaluating technology with adults is well understood, evaluating interactive technology with child users has received far less attention and raises a range of unusual and unexpected challenges. With more children than ever before using interactive technology on a daily basis, this course, for practitioners and researchers, aims to provide a succinct and useful introduction to evaluating technology with children. The course begins with the developmental and ethical challenges of working with children, then covers a range of foundational evaluation techniques, along with how techniques are used and how results are reported both in publications and to child audiences.

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Published
2025-04-23
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706655
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Child Development and Digital Technology
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Evaluating Interactive Technology with Children

Dan Fitton, Janet C. Read, Matthew Horton
Child Development and Digital Technology
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Evaluating Interactive Technology with Children

Dan Fitton, Janet C. Read, Matthew Horton
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Abstract

While evaluating technology with adults is well understood, evaluating interactive technology with child users has received far less attention and raises a range of unusual and unexpected challenges. With more children than ever before using interactive technology on a daily basis, this course, for practitioners and researchers, aims to provide a succinct and useful introduction to evaluating technology with children. The course begins with the developmental and ethical challenges of working with children, then covers a range of foundational evaluation techniques, along with how techniques are used and how results are reported both in publications and to child audiences.

University of Lancashire (GB), Lancaster University (GB)
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Openalex Percentile: Top 92%
Child Development and Digital Technology
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