Educational software for children

Reference:

Girard, S. and Johnson, H., 2009. Educational software for children. In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine - IHM '09. New York: ACM, pp. 259-262.

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Official URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1629826.1629868

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the investigationof children's use of direct manipulation mouse interaction styles when using educational software. The results of an experiment comparing two interaction styles (point-and-click and point-and-select) are presented. The context for the study relates to OLM educational software, 'Multipliotest', aimed at assisting children's learning of multiplications in French primary schools. A class of 24 children (aged 7 to 9 years old, level CE2) played two versions of this multiplication game, each version utilizing a differnt interaction style.

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