Three Important Research Agendas for Educational Multimedia: Learning, Children, and Gender

摘要: This paper discusses three often-overlooked characteristics of educational multimedia systems that are important for human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers: (a) learning environments have very different goals and approaches than do workplace environments, so HCI research must investigate issues within the context learning; (b) what works adults will not necessarily work children, develop usability guidelines appropriate children; (c) girls boys interact differently with technology, understand how each gender interacts computers. We illustrate these examples from our own explain can lead to computing hinder children's exclude any children on basis gender.