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This paper outlines usability evaluation procedures in an industry-linked research study of preschool children and interactive television. Preschool children’s responses to interactive television prototypes were assessed in a controlled laboratory setting situated within a familiar environment. It reports on the analysis of key pressing behaviour as a quantitative measure of preschool children’s responses to interactive technologies. The relationship between key pressing behaviour and levels of motivation, mastery and breakdown is explored.
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Weeramanthri, N. (2008). The Rise and Fall of Juan Perez: Key Pressing Behaviour and Children’s Responses to Interactive Television. In: Tscheligi, M., Obrist, M., Lugmayr, A. (eds) Changing Television Environments. EuroITV 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5066. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69478-6_3
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