[IxDA Discuss] teaching young people about usability

[Aleyda]

I'll be putting together material this Summer for a similar program
idea here in Miami, Fl. I'm looking to incorporate fun, hands-on
activities emphasizing usability and human factors concepts. 

I'm considering the possible idea of presenting usability design
challenges using cell phones or digital cameras.  These are objects
that this age group should (most likely) be very familiar with and
really into. You can have them define functionalities and they can be
creative here too, propose designs and then discuss them as a whole
and see what comes up. You can maybe also draft scenarios and use
them to evaluate the designs they've come up with allowing you to
address specific concepts for discussion. I have another idea on
presenting the usability testing (user experience), which you can
show using a program like Morae.

Here are some sites with this subject in mind, hope this helps:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/kiddesign/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/children.html
http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/0410-phonegames-minifizz.html



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