Large, Andrew, Beheshti, Jamshid, Nesset, Valerie and Bowler, Leanne Web Portal Design Guidelines as Identified by Children through the Processes of Design and Evaluation., 2006 . In 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Austin, TX (US), November 3-8, 2006. [Conference paper]
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The Web is an important source of information for school projects, but young users do not always find it easy to locate relevant material. A critical factor in success is the portal through which they search or browse web content. Traditionally web portals have been designed by adults with young users in mind, but there is very little evidence that the latter make use of them. In this paper design guidelines are elaborated for such portals that are based upon focus group and operational evaluations by elementary school students of two prototype web portals designed by two intergenerational teams, each comprising elementary school students and adult designers. The evaluations offer strong support for involving children throughout the design process for portals that both in presentation and functionality reflect the cognitive and affective needs of young users rather than adults.
Item type: | Conference paper |
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Keywords: | Web portal design ; elementary school students ; adult designers |
Subjects: | I. Information treatment for information services > IK. Design, development, implementation and maintenance D. Libraries as physical collections. > DE. School libraries. B. Information use and sociology of information > BI. User interfaces, usability. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HR. Portals. |
Depositing user: | Norm Medeiros |
Date deposited: | 05 Dec 2006 |
Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:05 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/8557 |
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