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Title: GrandparentGrandchild Book Reading Club
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Grandparent-Grandchild Book Reading Club
- Design Team
- Camille Brooks
- Shiva Dehghan
- Shima Eshraghi
- Ahmad Ibrahim
- Adebukola Oyenusi
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Introduction
- The International Childrens Digital Library
(ICDL) has created an online library,
www.icdlbooks.org, for teachers, children,
parents and many others to visit and read books
online. - ICDL wanted to expand the usage of their website
to include a way for grandparents and
grandchildren to correspond through reading books
together online. - Our service creates a centralized website for
grandparents and grandchildren to communicate and
share stories with audio recordings.
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Introduction (contd)
- Benefits
- Grandparents and grandchildren are able to
communicate with one another regardless of - distance
- varying time zones
- differing schedule.
- The interface is simple and easy to use for
older adults and children.
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Requirements
- System Requirements
- Computer, microphone, Internet access, Flash
Player and Flash Communication Server MX
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Intended Users
- Children ages 7 to 11 of varied cultures,
interests and genders. - Grandparents of varying ages, cultural
backgrounds, lifestyles and genders. - Both sets of users must have a basic knowledge of
computer usage including simple website
navigation.
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Demo
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Usability Test
- 7 subjects participated
- 3 grandparents
- 4 grandchildren
- The subjects had to accomplish tasks such as
- Registering a new account and logging in
- Listening to a book and/or recording
- Posting and reading messages
- All subjects had similar experience with the
interface.
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Usability Test Result
- Difficulty locating the page to record.
- Text fields were too short.
- Faulty error checking.
- Confusing feedback.
- Difficulty distinguishing between pages
- Picture icons were not clickable.
- Difficulty navigating to the previous pages.
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Conclusion/Recommendations
- We had lots of FUN !!! ???
- We hope it will be fully functional in the
future. - Providing back-end capabilities
- Integration with ICDL
- Multi-Language support
- Adding more features
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Acknowledgements
- Dr. Ben Schneiderman for his guidance and
encouragement and Georg Apitz for his
resourcefulness. - HCI Labs, Jade Alburo and Sabrina Liao for giving
us the inspiration to continue in our design
efforts. - Our usability test participants for taking their
time to use this interface design and providing
us with constructive feedback.
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Questions???
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