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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28169 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
